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Re: nth differences

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  • Subject: [mg39870] Re: [mg39852] nth differences
  • From: Dr Bob <drbob at bigfoot.com>
  • Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 05:29:13 -0500 (EST)
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differences[a_List] := NestList[Drop[RotateLeft@# - #, -1] &, a,
     Length@a - 1]
differences@{1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9}

Bobby

On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 02:52:13 -0500 (EST), Zachary Turner 
<_NOzturnerSPAM_ at cyberonic.com> wrote:

> Say I have a list of k integers and I want to produce a list containing 
> the
> first differences?  For example, given {1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9} the first
> differences are {1, 3, 2, 1, 1}, and the second differences are {2, -1, - 
> 1,
> 0}, the third are {-3, 0, 1}, etc
>
>
>
>



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Bobby R. Treat



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