Position within a list
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- Subject: [mg32920] Position within a list
- From: "Dana DeLouis" <ng_only at hotmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 02:30:05 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hello. A long time ago someone posted an elegant solution, but I can not
find it in the Archives.
Given a list that may have repeating data, this returned the character that
was repeated the most, and its position..
The example given was a list of the first 10,000 digits of Pi. I believe
the answer was that the number 9 was repeated 6 times around position
700 or 800.
The function was very short and elegant.
I don't believe the Split function was used, but I might be wrong.
Does anyone know how to do this? Thank you.
lst = RealDigits[Pi,10,10000][[1]];
The list would have...
{3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9, 2, 6, etc)
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Dana DeLouis
Windows XP & Mathematica 4.1
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