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Re: Newbie question

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  • Subject: [mg25308] Re: Newbie question
  • From: Yossi Lonke <jrl16 at po.cwru.edu>
  • Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 03:45:35 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: Dept. Mathematics, CWRU
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Hello,

One way to it is this:

Map[{#[[1]],1/#[[2]]}&, data],

Or, in even more cryptic form:

{#[[1]], 1/#[[2]]}& /@ data

The expression {#[[1]], 1/#[[2]]}& is a pure function, which receives
{x,y} (or longer lists)
as input and returns {x, 1/y}, and you simply map that function to your
list.

Yossi Lonke

Jose M Lasso wrote:

> Hi Mathgroup,
>
> I have some numerical data: data:={{x,y},{x1,y1},{x2,y2}....{xn,yn}},
> I want to transform the data like this:
> data1:={{x,1/y},{x1,1/y1},{x2,1/y2}....{xn,1/yn}}, how can I do this
> transformation? Thanx in advance. Regards
>
> Jose M Lasso

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