Re: apparently I don't know how to use Map (or Apply or MapThread)
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- Subject: [mg77400] Re: apparently I don't know how to use Map (or Apply or MapThread)
- From: "Drago Ganic" <dganic at vodatel.net>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 04:13:58 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Customer of Vodatel, Zagreb, CROATIA
- References: <f4676i$1n3$1@smc.vnet.net>
Hi,
in v6 use just ... Diagonal :-)
m = {{0.098, 0.951, 0.954}, {0.509, 0.914, 0.487}}
Diagonal[m]
{0.098, 0.914}
In older version you should use
Tr[m, List]
and will get the same result.
Greetings from Croatia,
Drago
<dbsearch04 at yahoo.com> wrote in message news:f4676i$1n3$1 at smc.vnet.net...
>I started with this:
>
> m = {{0.098, 0.951, 0.954}, {0.509, 0.914, 0.487}}
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> I tried to do this
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> Table[#[[i, i]], {i, Length[#]}] & /@ m
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> It does not work, but this works
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> Diag := Function[x, Table[x[[i, i]], {i, Length[x]}]]; Diag[m]
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> !@#$%^&*(
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> Can anyone tell me why? I also tried: Apply, MapThread,
> DiagonalMatrix, TakeMatrix, adding () around the pure function...
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> I know that this is a simple problem. Would Evaluate help?
>
> TIA.
>
> Regards..
>
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