Re: FW: matrix operations
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- Subject: [mg46523] Re: FW: matrix operations
- From: Erich Neuwirth <erich.neuwirth at univie.ac.at>
- Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 11:27:22 -0500 (EST)
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Map[(#[[2]] - #[[1]]) &, Partition[mat, 2, 1]] is another way of doing it functionally. Quite often Map is easier to understand than Apply with a level specification. E. Martin-Serrano (Houston) wrote: > Hi, > > I have put this David's response in a notebook called "The wonders of > functional programming (by David Park).nb", mainly, because of the use he > does of "%". Notice the "spaces" and "parenthesis" in the file's name, and > its length as a string. > > Spaces and length in Mathematica file names is something that has always > worried me: > > My question is: while this file name is instructive, for the purpose of > maintaining a library and documentation. Which are the implications from the > side of the capability of Mathematica in handling package names, and such > strings of characters as symbols? > > E. Martin-Serrano > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Park [mailto:djmp at earthlink.net] To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net > Subject: [mg46523] matrix operations > > > Paolo, > > The wonders of functional programming! Here's an example. > > mat = Array[x, {4, 4}] > > Partition[mat, 2, 1] > (answer = #2 - #1 & @@@ %) // MatrixForm > > @@@ is the Apply function, mapped onto the first level of mat. #2 - #1& is a > pure function that subtracts the second argument from the first argument. > > David Park > djmp at earthlink.net > http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: paolo tarpanelli [mailto:tarpanelli at libero.it] To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net > Subject: [mg46523] matrix operations > > > If I have a matrix > > a={x[[1,1]],x[[1,2]],...,x[[1,n]]} > {x[[2,1]],x[[2,2]],...,x[[2,n]]} > . > . > . > {x[[m,1]],x[[m,2]],...,x[[m,n]]} > > how can I compute the difference between any element and the previous for > each column : > > aa={x[[2,1]]-x[[1,1]], x[[2,2]]-x[[1,2]],...,x[[2,n]]-x[[1,n]]} > {x[[3,1]]-x[[2,1]], x[[3,2]]-x[[2,2]],...,x[[3,n]]-x[[2,n]]} > . > . > . > {x[[m,1]]-x[[m-1,1]],x[[m,2]]-x[[m-1,2]],...,x[[m,n]]-x[[m-1,n]]} > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------- > > I built this code but it does not work > > r=Array[0,{m,n}] > For[j=1,j=n,j++ > r[[i,j]]=Table[a[[i+1,j]]-a[[i,j]],{i,1,m-1,1}]] > > thanks > > Paolo > > ---------------- > >