Re: conditionals on lists
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- Subject: [mg79111] Re: [mg79088] conditionals on lists
- From: Sseziwa Mukasa <mukasa at jeol.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:23:45 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <200707180657.CAA04493@smc.vnet.net>
On Jul 18, 2007, at 2:57 AM, mausgeo at aol.com wrote:
> I am trying to run a simulation of a roulette game and I have created
> a list of 1's and -1's to represent wins and losses. Using the Split
> command I can get ordered pairs with the first coordinate being either
> 1 or -1 and the second coordinate being the number of successive
> entries. I am having trouble applying a conditional to this new list
> as I would like to perform a different function depending on the first
> coordinate of the ordered pair. How do I apply a conditional to a list
> of ordered pairs?
You're question is unclear, do you mean something like
If[#1>#2,#1,#2]&@@@{{1,5},{-1,3}}
?
Regards,
Ssezi
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