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Re: Newbie question about column sums of arrays

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  • Subject: [mg68539] Re: [mg68508] Newbie question about column sums of arrays
  • From: Bob Hanlon <hanlonr at cox.net>
  • Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 04:19:08 -0400 (EDT)
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The problem is with your definition of AA1

AA1=Table[(-1)^Random[Integer],{4},{4}]

{{-1, 1, 1, -1}, {1, -1, -1, 1}, {-1, -1, 1, -1}, 
  {-1, -1, -1, -1}}

Total[AA1]

{-2, -2, 0, -2}


Bob Hanlon

---- "George W. Gilchrist" <gwgilc at wm.edu> wrote: 
> I have spent several hours trying to find an answer to what must be  
> an incredibly simple problem: how to sum the columns of an array  
> containing a random mix of +1 and -1s. For example:
> 
> In[7]:=
> AA1=Array[x, {4,4}]/. x:> (-1)^Random[Integer]
> 
> 
> Out[7]=
> \!\(\*FormBox[
>    RowBox[{"(", "\[NoBreak]", GridBox[{
>          {\(1[1, 1]\), \(1[1, 2]\), \(\((\(-1\))\)[1, 3]\), \(1[1, 4] 
> \)},
>          {\(1[2, 1]\), \(1[2, 2]\), \(\((\(-1\))\)[
>            2, 3]\), \(\((\(-1\))\)[2, 4]\)},
>          {\(1[3, 1]\), \(\((\(-1\))\)[3, 2]\), \(1[3, 3]\), \(1[3, 4] 
> \)},
>          {\(\((\(-1\))\)[4, 1]\), \(1[4,
>            2]\), \(1[4, 3]\), \(\((\(-1\))\)[4, 4]\)}
>          },
>        RowSpacings->1,
>        ColumnSpacings->1,
>        ColumnAlignments->{Left}], "\[NoBreak]", ")"}],  
> TraditionalForm]\)
> 
> In[8]:=
> Total[AA1]
> 
> Out[8]=
> {(-1)[4,1]+1[1,1]+1[2,1]+1[3,1],
>   (-1)[3,2]+1[1,2]+1[2,2]+1[4,2],
>   (-1)[1,3]+(-1)[2,3]+1[3,3]+1[4,3],
>   (-1)[2,4]+(-1)[4,4]+1[1,4]+1[3,4]}
> 
> 
> So, Total[] seems to do the right thing, but I cannot get the actual  
> sums as real numbers, only this rather verbose representation. I have  
> searched the manuals for just about everything I can think of with no  
> luck. So, thanks for any help you can give me.
> 
> 
> Cheers, George
> 
> ..................................................................
> George W. Gilchrist                        Email #1: gwgilc at wm.edu
> Department of Biology, Box 8795          Email #2: kitesci at cox.net
> College of William & Mary                    Phone: (757) 221-7751
> Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795                    Fax: (757) 221-6483
> http://gwgilc.people.wm.edu/
> 
> 

--

Bob Hanlon
hanlonr at cox.net



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