Re: Understanding Flatten
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- Subject: [mg46324] Re: [mg46314] Understanding Flatten
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 04:37:59 -0500 (EST)
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On 14 Feb 2004, at 03:58, Harold Noffke wrote: > Mathematica 5.0.1 on Windows 2000 > MathGroup: > > 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? > > Thanks. > Harold > > The two examples are quite different. In the first you are using the form Flatten[expr,1, f] which falttens to level 1 all subexpresions (on level 1) with Head f . In your second case you are using just Flatten[expr]. To see both together: Flatten[Flatten[{{a,f[b,c],f[a,b,d]},{g,f[e,g]}}],1,f] {a,b,c,a,b,d,g,e,g} Andrzej Kozlowski Chiba, Japan http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~akoz/
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- Understanding Flatten
- From: Harold.Noffke@wpafb.af.mil (Harold Noffke)
- Understanding Flatten