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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: [mg61263] Re: [mg61231] How to reverse sign on the y's in a list of (x, y)'s?
  • From: Yasvir Tesiram <tesiramy at omrf.ouhsc.edu>
  • Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 05:54:00 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi,
On way is;

l = {{1, 2}, {3, 4}, {5, 6}}
MapIndexed[{#[[1]], -1.0*#[[2]]} &, l]

Yas


On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, 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?
>
> thanks!
>


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