Re: Re: Help please: Summing a list
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- Subject: [mg13588] Re: [mg13555] Re: [mg13480] Help please: Summing a list
- From: Jon Prudhomme <prudhomj at elwha.evergreen.edu>
- Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 03:53:50 -0400
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Oops sorry, I should have said this:
PP=Table[Apply[Plus,Take[P,n]],{n,1,Length[P]}]
(That'll teach me to try it before I post it...)
On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, Jon Prudhomme wrote:
>
> Rob, I think it would be easier to try this -
>
> PP=Table[Apply[Plus,Take[P,n]],{n,1,i}]
>
> Jon Prudhomme
> The Evergreen State College
>
> On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, Keith S. Mersman wrote:
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> > Rob,
> >
> > I think you want to do something like this:
> >
> > First, set up your original table:
> >
> > tab=Table[x,{x,0,110}]
> >
> > Then, assign a name to each of these entries like:
> >
> > Clear[P];
> > Table[P[i]=tab[[i]],{i,1,111}]
> >
> > This, this let P[i] be the i-1 entry in the table (labeled tab)
> >
> > Now, sum these values and label the totals:
> >
> > Table[PP[i]=Sum[P[n],{n,1,i}],{i,1,111}]
> >
> > This makes PP[i] be the sum of the first i entries of the orinal table.
> >
> > Now, creata a new table with these values:
> >
> > newtab=Table[PP[i],{i,1,111}]
> >
> > Hence, newtab is now a list with the ith value as the sum as the sum of
> > the first i entries of tab. Let me know if this is what you wanted.
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 26 Jul 1998 robpetersonSPAMME at iname.com wrote:
> >
> > > I make a list of numbers, eg:
> > >
> > > P=Table[6,{x,0,110}]; (I have a more interesting list to use later if I
> > > get this working)
> > >
> > > Now I want to make another list PP in which each entry PP[[i]] is the
> > > sum of P's first i entries. I try
> > >
> > > PP[[i]]:=Sum[P[[n]],{n,0,i}];
> > >
> > > At the definition, I get the following error: Part::"pspec":
> > > "Part specification \!\(n\) is neither an integer nor a list of
> > > integers."
> > >
> > > I don't know how to make n an integer. In the definition of Sum[], it
> > > seems n is an integer unless you add a forth parameter "di" in the
> > > specification list such as
> > > Sum[f, {i, imin, imax, di}]
> > >
> > > Can anyone help me to generate this second list?
> > >
> > > Thanks, Rob
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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