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Re: Applying a list of 2D paramters to a mathematica function

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  • Subject: [mg68073] Re: Applying a list of 2D paramters to a mathematica function
  • From: dimmechan at yahoo.com
  • Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 17:36:21 -0400 (EDT)
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 Curry Taylor :
> I have (for simplicity) something like this:
>
>  	f[x_, y_] := x+y;
>
>  	I want to use this function for a variety of parameters in a list:
>
>  	indices = {{a,b}, {c,d}, {e,f}, ..}
>
>  	so that I get
>
>  	{a+b, c+d, e+f, ..}
>
>  	Doing the intuitive thing (for me)
>
>  	f /@ indices
>
>  	results in
>
>  	{f[{a, b}], f[{c, d}], f[{e, f}], ..}
>
>  	but what I want is
>
>  	{f[a, b], f[c, d], f[e, f], ..}
>
>  	and that's not what I'm getting. I have tried using Flatten, pure
> functions (Slot # and &), different Map functions, nesting at parameters
> (like {1} and {2}), and other things but I just can't seem to get what I'm
> after. Any help please?
>
>  	Thank you,
>
> Curry

Just change the definition of your function as follows

f[ {x_,y_} ]:=x+y

indices={{a,b},{c,d},{e,f}};

Map[f,indices]
{a+b,c+d,e+f}


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