Re: Function
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg3829] Re: Function
- From: pecora at zoltar.nrl.navy.mil (Louis M. Pecora)
- Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 00:30:01 -0400
- Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
In article <4letbt$esv at dragonfly.wolfram.com>, Roberto Diego
<roberto at medusa.es> wrote:
> Could you please give me some advice?
>
> I4m trying to find a function that works on a list like {a1, a2, a3,
> a4, ..., an} and returns a list like {a2/a1, a3/a2, a4/a3, ... an/an-1}.
Try,
Thread[Divide[Rest[ls],Take[ls,Length[ls]-1]]]
where ls is your original list {a1,...}.
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Louis M. Pecora
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