Re: simple iteration question
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- Subject: [mg89928] Re: simple iteration question
- From: sashap <pavlyk at gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:17:15 -0400 (EDT)
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On Jun 20, 5:16 am, Francisco Gutierrez <fgutiers2... at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Dear Friends:
> I have a list of the form list={{3,2,1},{5,6,1},{10,5,1}}, of any lengt=
h
> I have a vector, say vector={1,2,3}
> I want to make the following iteration. Take the first component of th=
e =
> list, make the dot product of it and the vector, and substract a number (=
sa=
> y 50). If the result is bigger or equal than zero, stop and return the ve=
ct=
> or. If it is less than zero, then change the vector in the followig way: =
ve=
> ctor+list[[2]], and repeat the test.
> Iterate until the result is equal or bigger than zero, or until the list =
en=
> ds.
> I haven't found a neat way of doing this. Any help is welcome
> Francisco
>
Hey Francisco,
here is a short way of doing it:
In[59]:= mat = {{3, 2, 1}, {5, 6, 1}, {10, 5, 1}};
vec = {1, 2, 3};
In[61]:= Catch[
Fold[If[#1.#2 > 50, Throw[#1], #1 + mat[[2]]] &, vec, mat]]
Out[61]= {6, 8, 4}
Oleksandr Pavlyk