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Re: How To Break Long List to m-by-n MatrixForm

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  • From: Bill Rowe <readnews at sbcglobal.net>
  • Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 06:39:22 -0400 (EDT)

On 5/19/11 at 7:44 AM, afolabicrystal at gmail.com (Afolabicrystal)
wrote:

>I have a fundamental question.

>Given a long List of elements (say 60 elements). How do I break this
>to an m-by-n MatrixForm (say 5-by-12).

>It's kinda basic and I already feel silly asking the question.
>Simple things do elude big brains sometimes. Any idea?

Use Partition. For example,

data = Range[9]; creates a list of 9 elements and

Partition[data,3] converts this to a 3 x 3 array.



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