Re: Change of Basis function
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- Subject: [mg69010] Re: Change of Basis function
- From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net>
- Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 02:04:58 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
On 8/25/06 at 5:34 AM, dsboily at fastmail.ca (David Boily) wrote: >I would like to know if there is a function capable of giving as >output the representation of a vector in a given basis. For example: >FunctionX[{1,2,3}, {{1,2,0},{0,1,0},{0,0,1}}] >(where the first argument is the vector and the second the basis) >would yield >{1,0,3} >and >FunctionX[f x1 - b x2 + x3 - x2, {x1,x2,x3}] >would yield >{f, -b-1, 1} >I'm more interested in the second case, obviously, because the first >one can be achieved with a simple matrix multiplication. Take a look at CoefficientArrays in the help browser. That is your specific example can be done as: In[24]:= Normal@Last@CoefficientArrays[f x1-b x2+x3-x2,{x1,x2,x3}] Out[24]= {f,-b-1,1} -- To reply via email subtract one hundred and four