Re: Altering terms of an Expression
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- Subject: [mg11852] Re: Altering terms of an Expression
- From: Paul Abbott <paul@physics.uwa.edu.au>
- Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 03:45:17 -0500
- Organization: University of Western Australia
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S. Rempe wrote: > There are 3 things I want to do with an expression. > The expression may have 1 or more terms added together, each > term is composed of a product of elements. > > 1). I want to multiply each term in the expression by a product of > functions. For example, the expression labelled by integers k,l > might look like > > gm[[k,l]]= a*b*c > > I want it to become > > gm[[k,l]]= a*b*c*f[k]*f[l] I think you can achieve what you want using MapIndexed: In[1]:= expr=b a+b c a+c a+z (b a+b c a+c a); In[2]:= MapIndexed[f[First[#2]] f[Last[#2]] #1&, expr] Out[2]= 2 2 2 a b f[1] + a c f[2] + a b c f[3] + 2 (a b + a c b + a c) z f[4] or In[3]:= MapIndexed[f[First[#2]] f[Last[#2]] #1&,expr,Infinity] Out[3]= 6 5 5 a b c f[1] f[2] f[3] + a c f[1] f[2] + a b f[1] f[2] + 4 2 4 z f[1] f[2] f[4] (a b c f[1] f[2] f[3] f[4] + 2 3 2 3 a c f[1] f[2] f[4] + a b f[1] f[2] f[4] ) Cheers, Paul ____________________________________________________________________ Paul Abbott Phone: +61-8-9380-2734 Department of Physics Fax: +61-8-9380-1014 The University of Western Australia Nedlands WA 6907 mailto:paul@physics.uwa.edu.au AUSTRALIA http://www.pd.uwa.edu.au/~paul God IS a weakly left-handed dice player ____________________________________________________________________