Re: Sum of list elements
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- Subject: [mg49325] Re: [mg49313] Sum of list elements
- From: DrBob <drbob at bigfoot.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 07:29:30 -0400 (EDT)
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a = {2, 2, 1};
a/Total[a]
{2/5, 2/5, 1/5}
Bobby
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 04:32:49 -0400 (EDT), Per Rønne <spam at husumtoften.invalid> 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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- Sum of list elements