Re: Dot or Inner ... but not quite
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- Subject: [mg79636] Re: Dot or Inner ... but not quite
- From: sashap <pavlyk at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 04:51:48 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <f8n2rc$lp9$1@smc.vnet.net>
Try
In[15]:= MapThread[Times, {l1, l2}]
Out[15]= {{1, 7}, {4, 36}, {15, 6}}
On Jul 31, 5:27 am, "Diamond, Mark" <d... at dot.dot> wrote:
> I have two equi-length lists, the first of number, the second of
> (equi-length) lists of numbers , such as
>
> l1={1,4,3};
> l2={{1,7},{1,9},{5,2}};
>
> I want to produce 1*{1,7}+4*{1,9}+3*{5,2}
>
> It looks so close to Inner that I thought I could use it in some form, but I
> have ended up using
>
> (#[[1]]*#[[2]])& /@ Transpose[{l1,l2}]
>
> Is there a better way using one of the builtin functions with which I am
> unfamiliar?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark Diamond