Re: A Functional Programming Question
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- Subject: [mg24712] Re: A Functional Programming Question
- From: Mark Fisher <mark.fisher at atl.frb.org>
- Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 02:31:11 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
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David, this works: Thread[#, Equal] & /@ ({a x == 0, b y == 0, c z == 0}/{a, b, c}) --Mark. Mark Fisher Economic Advisor Research Department Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Atlanta, GA 30303 404-521-8757 (voice) 404-521-8810 (fax) mark.fisher at atl.frb.org personal web page: www.markfisher.net 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/