Re: Understanding Flatten
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- Subject: [mg46317] Re: Understanding Flatten
- From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net>
- Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 04:37:53 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
On 2/13/04 at 9:58 PM, Harold.Noffke at wpafb.af.mil (Harold Noffke)
wrote:
>In my study of Flatten, the Mathematica Book gives this example ...
>You can use Flatten to "splice" sequences of elements into lists or
>other expressions.
>In[5]:= Flatten[ {a, f[b, c], f[a, b, d]}, 1, f ]
>Out[5]= {a,b,c,a,b,d}
>I modified In[5] as follows ...
>In[1]:= Flatten[ { {a, f[b, c], f[a, b, d]}, {g, f[e, g]} }]
>Out[1]= {a, f[b, c], f[a, b, d], g, f[e, g]}
>I don't see why adding {g, f[e, g]} as a second list to the In[5]
>example unflattens Flatten's answer. What am I misunderstanding?
You did more than just add {g, f[e, g]} to the end of the list to be flattened. You deleted the 2nd and 3rd arguments which told Flatten things with head f.
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