Re: For Loop problem
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- Subject: [mg65611] Re: For Loop problem
- From: "Jens-Peer Kuska" <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 04:04:19 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Uni Leipzig
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Hi,
lst = Table[i, {i, 2040, 2060}];
If[# > 2048, # - 2048, # + 2048] & /@ lst
and the loop is gone .
Regards
Jens
"Rob" <rob at piovere.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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| I've got to manipulate some signed 12bit integer
numbers from a file and
| apparently Mathematica only handles 8 and 16 bit
signed numbers
| (probably for a very good reason). So I bring
them in as 16 bits (and
| they're stored that way with a leading zero
nibble) and then I have to
| do the following to make sense of them. I
really don't know why this
| code works but it does.
|
| For[i = 1, i < Length[y], i++, If[y[[i]] > 2048,
y[[i]] =
| y[[i]] - 2048, y[[i]] = y[[i]] + 2048]];
|
| So to my question: once again I had to resort to
a For loop to pull this
| off and I know this is a no-no. But I'm so
clueless about Mathematica
| that I've never come up with a more
sophisticated method after a year or
| so of thinking about it. Can someone help (as
they usually can)?
|
| Thanks, Rob
|