Re: help with lists operations
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- Subject: [mg67845] Re: help with lists operations
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 06:38:02 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi,
I'm not sure, that I understand you right but
myCompare[any_, lst : {{_, _} ..}] := myCompare[any, #] & /@ lst;
myCompare[{a_, b_}, {a_, c_}] := Sow[b*c];
myCompare[{a_, b_}, {c_, d_}] := Null;
Plus @@ Reap[myCompare[#, f2] & /@ f1][[2, 1]]
may help.
Regards
Jens
omk wrote:
> Hi ALL,
> I am a novice in Mathematica, know that there are no easy ways for learning, so spent 2 weeks trying to solve an easy problem, but so far have only ugly solutions.
> Yes, I read and reread the Book as well as searched for similar problems on the Forum.
> I have 2 lists:
> f1={{2, 1}, {3, 1}, {7, 2}, {9, 1}, {10, 1}, {12, 1}, {14, 3}, {19,
> 3}, {23, 1}, {24, 1}, {25, 1}}
> f2={{2, 2}, {5, 1}, {
> 6, 2}, {10, 1}, {14, 3}, {16, 1}, {18, 1}, {21, 3}, {22, 1}, {26, 1}}
> I need to compare sublists (pairs) from the first list f1 with pairs from f2.
> If pairs with 2 first equal numbers exist, I have to multiply the second, after having products for all such pairs, I need to receive their sum.
> Say from f1 and f2 I have {2,1} and {2,2}, the product is 1 2=2, similar {10,1} and {10,1},{14,3} and {14,3},
> so it should be 2+1+9=12
> Any ideas are very welcome
> TIA,
> omk
>