Re: Is there any efficient easy way to compare two lists with the same length with Mathematica?
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- Subject: [mg124380] Re: Is there any efficient easy way to compare two lists with the same length with Mathematica?
- From: Bill Rowe <readnews at sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:01:49 -0500 (EST)
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On 1/17/12 at 3:34 AM, aoirex at gmail.com (Rex) wrote:
>Given two lists `A={a1,a2,a3,...an}` and `B={b1,b2,b3,...bn}`, I
>would say `A>=B` if and only if all `ai>=bi`.
>There is a built-in logical comparison of two lists, `A==B`, but no
>`A>B`. Do we need to compare each element like this
>And@@Table[A[[i]]>=B[[i]],{i,n}]
I think you do need to do an element by element comparison. But
you don't need to specifically select each element using Part as
you are doing. That is:
In[13]:= {a, b} = RandomInteger[100, {2, 5}];
And @@ Thread[a > b]
Out[14]= False
In[15]:= c = RandomInteger[{150, 200}, 5];
And @@ Thread[c > a]
Out[16]= True