Re: Simply but handy question
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- Subject: [mg124836] Re: Simply but handy question
- From: Bob Hanlon <hanlonr357 at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 05:35:33 -0500 (EST)
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y = {{a, b}, {0, c}};
Replace[y, Except[0] -> 1, {-1}]
{{1, 1}, {0, 1}}
Bob Hanlon
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 5:29 AM, jediwhelan <jediwhelan at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Dear group members,
>
> I am new to mathematica (well, I'm not actually but I haven't used it
> in 5 years +).
>
> Is there an easy way to return a matrix X of 1's and 0's to test
> whether the entries in Y
> are different from zero.
>
> i.e.,
>
> if Y = {{a,b},{0,c}}
>
> Then X would return
>
> X = {{1,1},{0,1}}
>
> This would be handy for very large or complicated matrices where one
> would like to know if specific entries are zero?
>
> Many thanks,
> Paul
>
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- Simply but handy question
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- Simply but handy question