Re: number of switches
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- Subject: [mg47513] Re: [mg47479] number of switches
- From: János <janos.lobb at yale.edu>
- Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 03:39:15 -0400 (EDT)
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On Apr 14, 2004, at 7:16 AM, 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)?
>
>
My newbie approaches:
lst = {1, 0, 1, 0, 1}
Length[Cases[
Partition[lst, 2, 1], {1, 0}]] + Length[Cases[Partition[
lst, 2, 1], {0, 1}]]
4
or
Length[Partition[lst, 2, 1]] - Length[Position[Partition[lst,
2, 1], {a_, a_} ]]
4
I am sure there is an easier way without a Plus or Minus, but I am not
good at pattern matching.
János
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