Re: Could this be improved?
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- Subject: [mg21757] Re: Could this be improved?
- From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 22:56:38 -0500 (EST)
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Jordan:
myMtx[v_] :=
Reverse[Partition[PadLeft[Reverse[#], 3#2 - 2, {0}, #2 - 1], #2, 1]] &[v,
Length[v]]
myMtx[{1, 2, 3}]
{{1, 0, 0}, {2, 1, 0}, {3, 2, 1}, {0, 3, 2}, {0, 0, 3}}
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Allan
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"Jordan Rosenthal" <jr at ece.gatech.edu> wrote in message
news:86mdpv$2f3 at smc.vnet.net...
> Hi all,
>
> I wrote the following code which works correctly. I was wondering,
however,
> if there was a way of doing the same thing that had more of a Mathematica
> approach. I am new to Mathematica and am still trying to get a grasp on
how
> to program effectively within the environment.
>
> myMtx[v_] := Module[
> {nCols, nRows, vPadded, c},
> nCols = Length[v];
> nRows = 2nCols - 1;
> c = ZeroMatrix[nRows, nCols];
> vPadded = PadRight[v, nRows, 0];
> For[i = 1, i <= nCols, i++,
> c[[All, i]] = vPadded;
> vPadded = RotateRight[vPadded]
> ];
> c
> ]
>
> For example, myMtx[{1,2,3}] takes the vector {1,2,3} and turns it into the
> matrix {{1, 0, 0}, {2, 1, 0}, {3, 2, 1}, {0, 3, 2}, {0, 0, 3}} which looks
> like
>
> [ 1 0 0 ]
> [ 2 1 0 ]
> [ 3 2 1 ]
> [ 0 3 2 ]
> [ 0 0 3 ]
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jordan
>
>
>
>
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