Re: Please post: Mathematica -another For loop problem
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- Subject: [mg65805] Re: [mg65741] Please post: Mathematica -another For loop problem
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 02:29:00 -0400 (EDT)
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A functional approach: # + 2048*(1 - 2Boole[# > 2048]) & /@ y 1.156 wrote: > [This post has been delayed due to email problems - moderator] > > I've got to manipulate some signed 12bit integer numbers from a file and > apparently Mathematica only handles 8 and 16 bit signed numbers > (probably for a very good reason). So I bring them in as 16 bits (and > they're stored that way with a leading zero nibble) and then I have to > do the following to make sense of them. I really don't know why this > code works but it does. > > For[i = 1, i < Length[y], i++, If[y[[i]] > 2048, y[[i]] = > y[[i]] - 2048, y[[i]] = y[[i]] + 2048]]; > > So to my question: once again I had to resort to a For loop to pull this > off and I know this is a no-no. But I'm so clueless about Mathematica > that I've never come up with a more sophisticated method after a year or > so of thinking about it. Can someone help (as they usually can)? > > Thanks, Rob > > > -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305
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- Please post: Mathematica -another For loop problem
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- Please post: Mathematica -another For loop problem