Re: Re: Re: {x},{y} -> {x,y} ?
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- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 05:24:07 -0400 (EDT)
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Your last example is not really due to the fact that f is a "function
other than List" but is a feature of threading over single elements.
One can see in very simpler examples, e.g.
Thread[Thread[{1, {2, 3}}]]
{{1, 1}, {2, 3}}
Of course successive applications of Thread will now have the
involutive property:
NestList[Thread,{1, {2, 3}},5]
{{1, {2, 3}}, {{1, 2},
{1, 3}}, {{1, 1}, {2, 3}},
{{1, 2}, {1, 3}},
{{1, 1}, {2, 3}},
{{1, 2}, {1, 3}}}
Andrzej Kozlowski
On 1 Aug 2006, at 12:59, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> This solution (also posted by Bob Hanlon [mg68257] and Oleksandr
> Pavlyk
> [mg68254], and appearing as well in Michael Trott's "The Mathematica
> Guidebook for Programming") is very interesting, because Thread is its
> own functional inverse here:
>
> x = Range[3]; y = 10*Range[3];
> Thread[{x, y}]
> Thread[%]
> {{1, 10}, {2, 20}, {3, 30}}
> {{1, 2, 3}, {10, 20, 30}}
>
> In general, if x and y are any lists of the same length, then:
>
> Thread @ Thread[List[x, y]] == List[x, y]
> True
>
> (And similarly for n instead of 2 such lists).
>
> But for functions f other than List, it is not necessarily the case
> that
>
> Thread@Thread[f[x, y]] == f[x, y]
>
> is true. For example:
>
> f[x_,y_] := {{x[[1]], y[[2]]},y[[1]]}
> x=Range[3];y=10*Range[3];
> f[x,y]
> Thread[f[x,y]]
> Thread@Thread[f[x,y]]
> {{1,20},10}
> {{1, 10}, {20, 10}}
> {{1,20},{10,10}}
>
> What more can be said about such counterexamples?
>
> Stratocaster wrote:
>> "AngleWyrm" <anglewyrm at yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:eaht5b$or5$1 at smc.vnet.net...
>>> Hi,
>>> I have two lists, a set of x values and a set of y values. How do I
>>> convert
>>> them to one list of { {x1,y1},{x2,y2} } pairs?
>>>
>>
>> x = {set of X values};
>> y = {set of Y values};
>>
>> Thread[{x,y}]
>
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