Re: Help please: Summing a list
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- Subject: [mg13501] Re: Help please: Summing a list
- From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 04:33:18 -0400
- Organization: University of Western Australia
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robpeterson 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. For the list (it is safer to use lower-case variables), In[1]:= p = Table[6, {x, 0, 10}]; FoldList is probably the easiest (and fastest) operator for producing the list of cumulative sums: In[2]:= FoldList[Plus, First[P], Rest[P]]; Out[2]= {6, 12, 18, 24, 30, 36, 42, 48, 54, 60, 66} 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 at physics.uwa.edu.au AUSTRALIA http://www.pd.uwa.edu.au/~paul God IS a weakly left-handed dice player ____________________________________________________________________