Re: Comparing Corresponding Columns of Two Matrices
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- Subject: [mg97534] Re: Comparing Corresponding Columns of Two Matrices
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:16:08 -0500 (EST)
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Hi, \[ScriptCapitalX] = Table[RandomInteger[{0, 255}], {10}, {4}]; \[ScriptCapitalY] = Table[RandomInteger[{0, 255}], {10}, {4}]; MapThread[#1 > #2 &, {\[ScriptCapitalX], \[ScriptCapitalY]}, 2] ?? Regards Jens Gregory Lypny wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm trying to develop a modest skill in mapping functions and I've > been working on this problem. > > Suppose I have two 100 x 4 matrices, X and Y, and I want to see > whether each value in a column of X is bigger than each value in the > corresponding column of Y. In other words, compare column 1 of X with > column 1 of Y, column 2 of X with column 2 of Y, and so on. > > It's easy to generate a 100 x 4 table of Booleans using Table as > > Table[Boole[X[[i , j]] > Y[[i, j]]], {i, 100}, {j, 4}] > > But what about without Table? I am able to do it for the comparison > of any one column as > > Boole[#[[1]] > #[[2]]] & /@ Transpose[{X[[All, ]], Y[[All, 1]]}] > > but I'm not sure how to extend this to other columns. Any tip would > be much appreciated. > > Regards, > > Gregory >