Re: A Functional Programming Question
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- Subject: [mg24744] Re: A Functional Programming Question
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 02:31:50 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi,
Transpose[{{a, b, c}, eqns}] /. {b_, a_Equal} :> (#/b & /@ a)
#2*#1^(-1) & @@@ Transpose[{{a, b, c}, eqns}] /. a_Equal/b_ :> (#/b & /@
a)
?
Other more cryptic soutions are welcome.
Regards
Jens
David Park wrote:
>
> Dear MathGroup,
>
> Suppose I have three equations.
>
> eqns = {a x == 0, b y == 0, c z == 0};
>
> I want to divide out the constants a, b, and c. I can do it this way:
>
> eqns[[1]] = (#1/a & ) /@ eqns[[1]];
> eqns[[2]] = (#1/b & ) /@ eqns[[2]];
> eqns[[3]] = (#1/c & ) /@ eqns[[3]];
> eqns
>
> {x == 0, y == 0, z == 0}
>
> Is there a simpler method for doing the calculation in one statement with
> functional programming, say using MapThread over eqns and {a,b,c}? Is there
> any other simple approach?
>
> David Park
> djmp at earthlink.net
> http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/