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Re: Passing a list as seperate parameters?

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  • Subject: [mg73215] Re: Passing a list as seperate parameters?
  • From: Peter Breitfeld <phbrf at t-online.de>
  • Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 03:30:56 -0500 (EST)
  • References: <eqc71p$qs7$1@smc.vnet.net>

Azumanga schrieb:
> I have a recuring problem in using mathematica, which I'm sure there
> must be a simple fix for, but I've looked through the manual and can't
> find it.
>
> As an example, I build up the list { {a,b},{c,d} }, and I want to find
> the union of it's elements.
>
> At first glance, I want Union. However, Union wants it's input as
> Union[{a,b},{c,d}], Union[{{a,b},{c,d}}] doesn't do anything.
>
> In general I get around this by fold, but it seems there should be a
> simpler method?
>
>

is

In= Union@@{{a,b},{c,d}}
Out={a,b,c,d}

what you want?

Gruss Peter
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