Re: nth differences
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- Subject: [mg39879] Re: nth differences
- From: "Steve Luttrell" <luttrell at _removemefirst_westmal.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 05:30:37 -0500 (EST)
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Try the following:
FixedPointList[(#1[[2]] - #1[[1]] & ) /@
Partition[#1, 2, 1] & , {1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9}]
which produces the list
{{1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9}, {1, 3, 2, 1, 1}, {2, -1, -1, 0}, {-3, 0, 1}, {3, 1},
{-2}, {}, {}}
Just strip off the last two elements and it does what you want.
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Steve Luttrell
West Malvern, UK
"Zachary Turner" <_NOzturnerSPAM_ at cyberonic.com> wrote in message
news:b4c9lo$nqg$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> Say I have a list of k integers and I want to produce a list containing
the
> first differences? For example, given {1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9} the first
> differences are {1, 3, 2, 1, 1}, and the second differences are
{2, -1, -1,
> 0}, the third are {-3, 0, 1}, etc
>
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