Re: Dot or Inner ... but not quite
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- Subject: [mg79658] Re: [mg79622] Dot or Inner ... but not quite
- From: Curtis Osterhoudt <cfo at lanl.gov>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 05:03:20 -0400 (EDT)
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In[55]:= l1*l2
Out[55]= {{1, 7}, {4, 36}, {15, 6}}
:)
On Tuesday 31 July 2007 04:13:49 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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