Re: pure function to generate a list of integrals
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- Subject: [mg77289] Re: pure function to generate a list of integrals
- From: David Bailey <dave at Remove_Thisdbailey.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 07:16:30 -0400 (EDT)
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Ruth Lazkoz Saez wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am trying to brush up a long code I have to make it more compliant > with the spirit of functional programming. I do not like to hear that > the kind of calculations I do should run faster in C, because I suspect > that if I managed to write good code in Mathematica it should be as > fast. So I have to go and improve my code chunk by chunk. > > My first problem is that I want to generate a pure function say f, > which, so that f[2, {0.1, 0.5, 0.9}] gives me the same output as > > {NIntegrate[2x, {x, 0, 0.1}], NIntegrate[2x, {x, 0, 0.5}], > NIntegrate[2x, {x, 0, 0.9}]} > > That is, I want to generate a list of numerical integrals of the same > function but making one of the integration limits change by taking > values from a list. > > I also want my function to admit two arguments (a number and a list) > because I want to be able to use the same definition to generate the > same output as for instance > > > {NIntegrate[3x, {x, 0, 0.1}], NIntegrate[3x, {x, 0, 0.5}], > NIntegrate[3x, {x, 0, 0.9}]} > > by evaluating f[3, {0.1, 0.5, 0.9}] this time. > > I tried for quite a while, but I failed. I suspect one of the problems > is NIntegrate is not listable. I could make some progress with Map but > I only what halfway and on top I was not satisfied with the syntax I > would have to use. > > Thanks in advance, > > Ruth Lazkoz > > > Plenty of people have given you code suggestions. I would just like to point out that the cost of executing the NIntegrate command will almost certainly swamp any speed gain from making your code more functional! David Bailey http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk