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Re: Re: Creating a set from two other sets

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  • Subject: [mg84788] Re: [mg84774] Re: Creating a set from two other sets
  • From: Arne Hallam <ahallam at iastate.edu>
  • Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:50:26 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: Iowa State University
  • References: <20080113071810.NOTL2.263234.root@eastrmwml24.mgt.cox.net>
  • Reply-to: ahallam at iastate.edu

This is great.  Thank you.

I did not know how to use table in picking from a set.  I had defined 
the sets a and b so I just did the following.

a={0, 1, 2, 3, 4};
b={-1, 1, 2, 3};
SA=Table[x/y,{x,a},{y,b}]


Thanks.

Any easy way to create a set with an infinite number of members as in 
3<=x<=10?

Bob Hanlon wrote:
> In v6 you can also do this directly with Table
> 
> Outer[#1/#2 &, {0, 1, 2, 3, 4}, {-1, 1, 2, 3}] ==
>  Table[a/b, {a, {0, 1, 2, 3, 4}}, {b, {-1, 1, 2, 3}}]
> 
> True
> 
> 
> Bob Hanlon
> 
> ---- Steve Luttrell <steve at _removemefirst_luttrell.org.uk> wrote: 
>> In[1]:= Outer[#1/#2&,{0,1,2,3,4},{-1,1,2,3}]
>> Out[1]= {{0,0,0,0},{-1,1,1/2,1/3},{-2,2,1,2/3},{-3,3,3/2,1},{-4,4,2,4/3}}
>>
>> Stephen Luttrell
>> West Malvern, UK
>>
>> <ahallam at iastate.edu> wrote in message news:fmcqap$ga0$1 at smc.vnet.net...
>>> So I would like to create a set AB which consists of all ratios a/b
>>> where a is an element of {0,1,2,3,4} and b is an element of
>>> {-1,1,2,3}.  Table does not seem to let me use elements of a set as
>>> compared to sequential lists.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>>
> 

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sensitivity and thoughtfulness and generosity and humility and good 
old-fashioned love---have gone out of fashion.  Ironically, everyone is 
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one of the most basic rights, if we can put it like that: the right, or 
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jest than in earnest),that Europe ought to grow its corn in America, and 
devote itself solely to manufactures and commerce, as the best sort of 
division of the labour of the globe---Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the 
Principle of Population Book III, Chapter XII.

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