Re: List Operations
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- Subject: [mg65709] Re: [mg65681] List Operations
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 01:45:16 -0400 (EDT)
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On 15 Apr 2006, at 10:10, Andrzej Kozlowski wrote:
>
> 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
>
Sorry, I copied and pasted not what I intended. The second example
should have been:
SetAttributes[plus,{Flat,OneIdentity}];
Format[plus[x___]]:=HoldForm[Plus[x]];
Split[mylist /. {i_, x_, y_} -> {i, x*y}, #1[[1]] == #2[[1]] & ] //.
{a___, {i_, x_}, {i_, y_}, b___} ->
{a, {i, plus[x, y]}, b}
{{{1, a*b + a*b + a*b}}, {{2, b*z + b*z + b*z + b*z}}}
- References:
- List Operations
- From: "LectorZ" <lectorz@mail.ru>
- List Operations