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Re: functional routine for {a, b, c, ...} -> {a - b, b - c, c - ...}

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  • Subject: [mg24900] Re: [mg24892] functional routine for {a, b, c, ...} -> {a - b, b - c, c - ...}
  • From: Ken Levasseur <Kenneth_Levasseur at uml.edu>
  • Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 01:34:51 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: UMass Lowell
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Maarten

This will work :

Partition[lst, 2, 1] /. {{a_, b_} -> b - a}

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Maarten.vanderBurgt at icos.be wrote:
> 
> Hallo,
> 
>  element.
> I found two ways for doing this:
> 
> lst = {a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h};
> 
> Table[lst[[i]] - lst[[i + 1]], {i, 1, Length[lst] - 1}]
> {a - b, b - c, c - d, d - e, e - f, f - g, g - h}
> 
> ListCorrelate[{1, -1}, lst]
> {a - b, b - c, c - d, d - e, e - f, f - g, g - h}
> 
> The first method is rather clumsy and the 2nd one is quite short, but not
> really obvious.
> Initally I was looking for a functional programming style routine.
> Something like: (#[[i]]-#[[i-1]])&/@lst.
> Who can tell me how to do this in a functional programming style?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Maarten van der Burgt
> Leuven, Belgium


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