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Re: transforming a rule of lists to a list of rules

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  • Subject: [mg69148] Re: transforming a rule of lists to a list of rules
  • From: Roger Bagula <rlbagula at sbcglobal.net>
  • Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 04:39:01 -0400 (EDT)
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Ken Senior wrote:

>Hello everyone.
>
>Does anyone know a way to transform a rule involving a list into a list
>of individual rules, that is to interpret the rule elementwise?  For
>example, given
>
>   {a,b,c} -> {0,3,x}
>
>is there a transformation which will turn this into
>
>   {a->0, b->3, c->x}
>
>Thanks for the help!
>
>Ken
>
>  
>
This seems to work:

Solve[a*(b-3)*(c-x)==0,{a,b,c}]


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