Re: Handling a list: Could you find a more elegant solution?
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- Subject: [mg38270] Re: Handling a list: Could you find a more elegant solution?
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 04:16:59 -0500 (EST)
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Hi,
Plus @@@ Partition[list1, 2, 1]/2
Regards
Jens
guillerm at usal.es wrote:
>
> I have a list:
>
> list1 = {a, b, c, d, e};
>
> I want manipulate the list to obtain:
>
> (*Out[]:{(a + b)/2, (b + c)/2, (c + d)/2, (d + e)/2}*)
>
> It can be done for this function
>
> f[data_List] := Drop[Plus @@ NestList[RotateRight, data,
> 1], 1]/2
>
> f[list1]
>
> but I am sure that some member of the group can find a more elegant function. I
> will appreciate to know it.
>
> Thanks
>
> Guillermo Sanchez
>
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