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Re: Applying multiple functions to multiple sets of arguements

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  • Subject: [mg42652] Re: Applying multiple functions to multiple sets of arguements
  • From: "John Jowett" <John.Jowett at cern.ch>
  • Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 03:19:36 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: CERN
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Taking lists of length 3 to illustrate

fs={f1,f2,f3};
xs={x1,x2,x3};

one way is

Outer[#1[#2]&,fs,xs]

John Jowett


"Rishi Roy" <rishiroy at umich.edu> wrote in message
news:bf8f5g$5ne$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> Hi all.  I was hoping someone cold help me.  I wanted a way to apply
> an arbitrary number of functions to an arbitrary number of sets of
> arguments.
>
> Meaning if I have n functions: {f1, f2, ...,fn} and m sets of
> arguments: {x1, x2, ..., xm}, how can I generate a list like:
> {{f1[x1], f1[x2], ...,f1[xm]},{f2[x1], f2[x2],
> ...,f2[xm]},...,{fn[x1], fn[x2], ...,fn[xm]}}?
>
> I am currently doing this by looping throgh both lists and populating
> each results one by one.  As expecting this is horribly slow.  I was
> hoping someone could recommend a faster, functional way to do this.  I
> tried using map, but couldnt get a handle on it.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you in advance.
>
> Rishi Roy
>



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