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Counting Runs

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  • Subject: [mg51890] Counting Runs
  • From: Gregory Lypny <gregory.lypny at videotron.ca>
  • Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 01:50:22 -0500 (EST)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Looking for an elegant way to count runs to numbers in a series.  
Suppose I have a list of ones and negative ones such as
	v={1,1,1,-1,1,1,1,1,1,-1,-1,-1,-1,1}.
I'd like to create a function that counts the number of runs of 1s and 
-1s, which in this case is 3 and 2.

	Greg


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