Re: matrix operations
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg46344] Re: matrix operations
- From: bobhanlon at aol.com (Bob Hanlon)
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 08:59:46 -0500 (EST)
- References: <c0mohe$65t$1@smc.vnet.net>
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
a = Array[x, {3,4}] {{x[1, 1], x[1, 2], x[1, 3], x[1, 4]}, {x[2, 1], x[2, 2], x[2, 3], x[2, 4]}, {x[3, 1], x[3, 2], x[3, 3], x[3, 4]}} r=Module[{at=Transpose[a]}, Transpose[Rest[#-RotateRight[#]]& /@ at]] {{x[2, 1] - x[1, 1], x[2, 2] - x[1, 2], x[2, 3] - x[1, 3], x[2, 4] - x[1, 4]}, {x[3, 1] - x[2, 1], x[3, 2] - x[2, 2], x[3, 3] - x[2, 3], x[3, 4] - x[2, 4]}} r == Table[a[[m+1,n]]-a[[m,n]], {m,Length[a]-1},{n,Length[First[a]]}] True Bob Hanlon In article <c0mohe$65t$1 at smc.vnet.net>, "paolo tarpanelli" <tarpanelli at libero.it> wrote: << If I have a matrix a={x[[1,1]],x[[1,2]],...,x[[1,n]]} {x[[2,1]],x[[2,2]],...,x[[2,n]]} . . . {x[[m,1]],x[[m,2]],...,x[[m,n]]} how can I compute the difference between any element and the previous for each column : aa={x[[2,1]]-x[[1,1]], x[[2,2]]-x[[1,2]],...,x[[2,n]]-x[[1,n]]} {x[[3,1]]-x[[2,1]], x[[3,2]]-x[[2,2]],...,x[[3,n]]-x[[2,n]]} . . . {x[[m,1]]-x[[m-1,1]],x[[m,2]]-x[[m-1,2]],...,x[[m,n]]-x[[m-1,n]]} -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------- I built this code but it does not work r=Array[0,{m,n}] For[j=1,j=n,j++ r[[i,j]]=Table[a[[i+1,j]]-a[[i,j]],{i,1,m-1,1}]]