Re: Handling a list: Could you find a more elegant solution?
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 - Subject: [mg38238] Re: Handling a list: Could you find a more elegant solution?
 - From: kzhang at flashmail.com (Kezhao Zhang)
 - Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 04:09:31 -0500 (EST)
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Use ListCorrelate:
In[1]:=ListCorrelate[{1, 1}, {a, b, c, d, e}]/2
         a + b  b + c  c + d  d + e
Out[1]= {-----, -----, -----, -----}
           2      2      2      2
Kezhao
guillerm at usal.es wrote in message news:<asn36u$40k$1 at smc.vnet.net>...
> 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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