Re: functional routine for {a, b, c, ...} -> {a - b, b - c, c - ...}
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- Subject: [mg24934] Re: [mg24892] functional routine for {a, b, c, ...} -> {a - b, b - c, c - ...}
- From: Matt.Johnson at autolivasp.com
- Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 16:22:43 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Here's one way: In[80]:= func[list_] := MapThread[#1 - #2 &, Transpose[Partition[list, 2, 1]]] In[81]:= func[lst] Out[81]= {a - b, b - c, c - d, d - e, e - f, f - g} -matt Maarten.vanderBurgt at icos.be on 08/19/2000 02:46:09 AM cc: Subject: [mg24934] [mg24892] functional routine for {a, b, c, ...} -> {a - b, b - c, c - ...} 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