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Sum of list elements

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  • Subject: [mg49313] Sum of list elements
  • From: spam at husumtoften.invalid (Per Rønne)
  • Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 04:32:49 -0400 (EDT)
  • Reply-to: spam at husumtoften.dk (Per Rønne)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

I'm trying to find a function [possibly a way to make a function] which
calculate the sum of the elements of a list.

Right now, the purpose is to find the relative distribution of the
elements of a list. That is, I need a way to get out that the
distribution of:

{2, 2, 1}

is

{2/5, 2/5, 1/5}.

Had I been able to get the sum of the list elements in this way:

Sum[{2, 2, 1}]

it could had been done with:

l = {2, 2, 1}
l / Sum[l]

-- 
Per Erik Rønne


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