Re: List Manipulation
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- Subject: [mg72419] Re: [mg72407] List Manipulation
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 05:35:07 -0500 (EST)
- References: <200612250952.EAA14907@smc.vnet.net>
On 25 Dec 2006, at 18:52, Stratocaster wrote:
> I'm not sure if the following is possible or whether it exists
> somewhere
> between the realms of fantasy and science fiction. I have been
> unable to do
> it.
>
> Given a list, set, vector (whatever you want to call it) consisting of
> functions of the same variable, i.e.
>
> list = {a1+b1*k, a2+b2*k, a3+b3*k...}
>
> Assuming they are all linear (of the form a+b*k) is there away to
> isolate
> the a_i and b_i values? Essentially I would like to get a list "A"
> consisting of all the intercept values, and a list "B" consisting
> of all the
> slope values.
>
> Is this possible? What kind of operations do I need to use to
> accomplish
> this (if indeed it is possible)?
>
> Thanks for any insights.
>
If I understand you correctly this function gives one (out of a large
number) of ways of doing this:
f[ls_] := Transpose[Map[{Coefficient[#, k, 0], Coefficient[#, k, 1]}
&, ls]]
Let's take two sample lists, one with numeric and one with symbolic
coefficients:
ls1={2+3 k,1-0.5k,4+Pi k};
ls2={a+b k,c+d k,e+f k};
Then
f[ls1]
{{2, 1, 4}, {3, -0.5, Pi}}
f[ls2]
{{a, c, e}, {b, d, f}}
Andrzej Kozlowski
Tokyo, Japan
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- List Manipulation
- From: "Stratocaster" <stotz1@verizon.net>
- List Manipulation