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Re: How to get elements satisfying specific condition from a list

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  • Subject: [mg123391] Re: How to get elements satisfying specific condition from a list
  • From: Bill Rowe <readnews at sbcglobal.net>
  • Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 05:15:51 -0500 (EST)
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On 12/4/11 at 2:51 AM, e-changb at hanmail.net (e-changb) wrote:

>Hi, please help me if you can.. Let

>B:= Table[{x, y}, {x, 1, 6}, {y, 1, 6}]

A couple of comments here. It is wiser to use lower case letters
for your variables so as to avoid conflicts with built in
symbols. Also, no need for SetDelayed (:=) here. Set (=) will do
what you want.

>It is clear that B has 36 elements.

>I want to get the list of elements satisfying 'the first component +
>second component is bigger than 9'

>so that the answer is

>{{5,5},{5,6},{6,5},{6,6}}.

 From your description both {4,6} and {6,4} should be included.
In any case, what you want can be done as:

In[12]:= b = Table[{x, y}, {x, 1, 6}, {y, 1, 6}];
Cases[Flatten[b, 1], _?(Total@# > 9 &)]

Out[13]= {{4, 6}, {5, 5}, {5, 6}, {6, 4}, {6, 5}, {6, 6}}

Or a little more efficiently as:

In[14]:= b = Tuples[Range[6], {2}];
Cases[b, _?(Total@# > 9 &)]

Out[15]= {{4, 6}, {5, 5}, {5, 6}, {6, 4}, {6, 5}, {6, 6}}

>In fact, I have no idea for following even simpler problem. : Let A
>be a set of all natural numbers less than 10. Find every element
>whose squre root is bigger than 2. (needless to say the answer is
>{5,6,7,8,9})

This could be done as:

In[16]:= Cases[Range[10], _?(2 < Sqrt[#] &)]

Out[16]= {5,6,7,8,9,10}




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