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Re: How to reverse sign on the y's in a list of (x, y)'s?

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  • Subject: [mg61261] Re: How to reverse sign on the y's in a list of (x, y)'s?
  • From: Helen Read <read at math.uvm.edu>
  • Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 05:53:53 -0400 (EDT)
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sherifffruitfly at gmail.com wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> This is really dumb, but I just don't know how to do it...
> 
> Import from excel gives me a list of ordered pairs, and I want the 2nd
> element of each pair to be of opposite sign. Sticking the negative sign
> in front of the entire Import statement reverses both the 1st and the
> 2nd elements (duh). How do I get just the second item to reverse sign?

v = your list of ordered pairs

Map[{#[[1]], -#[[2]]} &, v]

--
Helen Read
University of Vermont



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