Re: List Operations
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- Subject: [mg65705] Re: [mg65681] List Operations
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 01:45:13 -0400 (EDT)
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On 14 Apr 2006, at 17:32, LectorZ wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> My question:
>
> mylist={{1,a, b},{1,a, b},{1,a,
> b},{2,b,z},{2,b,z},{2,b,z},{2,b,z},....,{n,x,y},{n,x,y},{n,x,y},...
> {n,x,y}}
>
> The sublists are of different length.
>
> I need to calculate the product between the 2nd and 3rd element of
> every sublist (e.g. a*b) and then add them up according to the 1st
> element: sum of all products where the 1st element is 1, 2, ...n.
>
> The result should be a list like that:
> {{1,a*b+a*b+a*b},{2,b*z+b*z+b*z+b*z}, ...,{n, x*y+x*y+x*y+...+x*y}}
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> LZ
>
It is impossible in Mathematica to get Mathematica to output
something in the form a+a+a and the like instead of 3a , without
using HoldForm. So, you should either use something like this:
mylist = {{1, a, b}, {1, a, b}, {1, a,
b}, {2, b, z}, {2, b, z}, {2, b, z}, {2, b, z}};
mylist /. {i_, x_, y_} -> {i, x*y} //. {a___, {i_, x_}, {i_, y_},
b___} -> {a, {i, x + y}, b}
{{1, 3*a*b}, {2, 4*b*z}}
or if you really want it to look as you wrote it:
SetAttributes[plus,{Flat,OneIdentity}]
Format[plus[x___]]:=HoldForm[Plus[x]]
mylist /. {i_, x_, y_} -> {i, x*y} //. {a___, {i_, x_}, {i_, y_},
b___} -> {a, {i, HoldForm[x + y]}, b}
{{1,a*b+a*b+a*b},{2,b z+b*z+b*z+b*z}}
Andrzej Kozlowski
- References:
- List Operations
- From: "LectorZ" <lectorz@mail.ru>
- List Operations