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Re: Dot or Inner ... but not quite

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  • Subject: [mg79632] Re: Dot or Inner ... but not quite
  • From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
  • Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 04:49:44 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: Uni Leipzig
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  • Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de

Hi,

and

l1*l2

??


Regards
   Jens
Diamond, Mark wrote:
> I have two equi-length lists, the first of number, the second of 
> (equi-length) lists of numbers , such as
> 
> l1={1,4,3};
> l2={{1,7},{1,9},{5,2}};
> 
> I want to produce 1*{1,7}+4*{1,9}+3*{5,2}
> 
> It looks so close to Inner that I thought I could use it in some form, but I 
> have ended up using
> 
> (#[[1]]*#[[2]])& /@ Transpose[{l1,l2}]
> 
> Is there a better way using one of the builtin functions with which I am 
> unfamiliar?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mark Diamond 
> 
> 
> 


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