Re: Sum of list elements
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- Subject: [mg49315] Re: [mg49313] Sum of list elements
- From: "Ravinder Kumar B." <ravi at crest.ernet.in>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 05:23:18 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
It is easy to acheive using Map (@@) function as follows:
A={1,2,3,4,5};
B=A/Plus@@A;
gives the desired result
B={1/15,2/15,3/15,4/15,5/15}
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Per Rønne wrote:
> 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]
>
>
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Regards, Jul 13
Ravi
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