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Re: Combining Lists?

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  • Subject: [mg8603] Re: Combining Lists?
  • From: "Dr Stephen P Luttrell" <luttrell at signal.dra.hmg.gb>
  • Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 03:07:18 -0400
  • Organization: Defence Research Agency
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Alan Hunter <akh6n at virginia.edu> wrote in article
<5ut8r0$a50 at smc.vnet.net>...
> I think this is a pretty easy question so I hope someone will be able
> to answer it, I just can't figure out how to do it.  If you have two
> lists, for example {1, 2, 3} and {4, 5, 6}.  Is there a command to
> combine them into a series of XY pairs like {{1, 4}, {2, 5}, {3, 6}}? 
> The book doesn't seem to have such a command, but I suspect one exists. 

Transpose[{{1, 2, 3} ,{4, 5, 6}}]

produces the output

{{1,4},{2,5},{3,6}}

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