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Re: number of switches

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  • Subject: [mg47540] Re: number of switches
  • From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net>
  • Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 03:40:46 -0400 (EDT)
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On 4/14/04 at 7:16 AM, fake at fake.it (fake) wrote:

>Consider the lists {1,1,0,1} and {1,1,0,0},{1,0,1,0,1}. The first
>sequence (1101) switches 2 times (#2digit~#3digit,
>#3digit~#4digit}, the second (1100) 1 time, the third 10101 4
>times.

>I have the following problem. Consider a list of binary digits.
>Which is the easiest way to count the number of switches of the
>list (using Mathematica commands)?

I don't know if the following is the "easiest way" but it works

Count[Abs@ListConvolve[{1,-1},lst],1]

where lst is the list of binary digits
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