Re: normalize a table
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- Subject: [mg72799] Re: [mg72768] normalize a table
- From: Adriano Pascoletti <pascolet at dimi.uniud.it>
- Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 03:12:39 -0500 (EST)
- References: <200701190601.BAA28573@smc.vnet.net>
Ruth,
here is a solution based on transposition
In[1]:=
L = {{1, 0.2}, {2, 0.3}, {3, 0.4}, {4, 0.5}};
((Transpose[{#1/Max[#1], #2}] & ) @@ Transpose[#1] & )[L]
Out[2]=
{{1/4, 0.2}, {1/2, 0.3}, {3/4, 0.4}, {1, 0.5}}
Adriano Pascoletti
On 19 gen 2007, at 07:01, Ruth wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to do something really simple, which is take a table made of
> pairs and normalize the first number in each pair by dividing by the
> largest.
>
> For instance, I want to transform this list
>
> {{1,0.2},{2,0.3},{3,0.4},{4,0.5}}
>
> into this one
>
> {{1/4, 0.2}, {1/2, 0.3}, {3/4, 0.4}, {1, 0.5}}
>
> The way i did it is through the chain of commands
>
> firsttable={{1,0.2},{2,0.3},{3,0.4},{4,0.5}};
>
>
> top=Max[Table[firsttable[[i,1]],{i,1,Length[firsttable]}]];
>
>
> mytable=Do[newtable=ReplacePart[newtable,newtable[[i,1]]/top,{i,
> 1}],{i,1,Length[firsttable]}]
>
> There must be a more elegant way to do it, but @&# and commands like
> those are still hard to handle for me, and I could not work it out
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Ruth
>
>
- References:
- normalize a table
- From: Ruth <ruth.lazkoz@ehu.es>
- normalize a table