Re: Sorting of Data Lists
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- Subject: [mg11047] Re: [mg11011] Sorting of Data Lists
- From: "JOHN C ERB" <JOHN_C_ERB@prodigy.net>
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 20:31:48 -0500
How about the following:
a1={1,3,8};
a2={2,4,7};
Map[Min[#]&,Transpose[{a1,a2}]]
John C. Erb
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From: CFreitas@swri.edu <CFreitas@swri.edu> To: mathgroup@smc.vnet.net
Subject: [mg11047] [mg11011] Sorting of Data Lists
>I have two equal length vector sets of data. I wish to form a third
>vector whose elements are the minimum values from each component of
>the other two vectors; i.e., if a(i) < b(i), then c(i) = a(i), else
>c(i) = b(i). I have tried many different methods within Mathematica
>3.0 and have not been successful. I would appreciate any suggestions
>as to how to accomplish this task.
>Thank you.
>
>Dr. Christopher J. Freitas
>Principal Engineer - Computational Mechanics Southwest Research
>Institute
>Voice: 210-522-2137, Fax: 210-522-3042
>