Re: How to construct a vector whose elements are also vectors?
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- Subject: [mg82871] Re: [mg82813] How to construct a vector whose elements are also vectors?
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 05:27:05 -0500 (EST)
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stat = Partition[Table[0, {20}], 2]
{{0,0},{0,0},{0,0},{0,0},{0,0},{0,0},{0,0},{0,0},{0,0},{0,0}}
stat[[1]] = {29, -17};
stat
{{29,-17},{0,0},{0,0},{0,0},{0,0},{0,0},{0,0},{0,0},{0,0},{0,0}}
stat[[{3,5}]]={{"Hello","world!"},{x,y}};
stat
{{29,-17},{0,0},{Hello,world!},{0,0},{x,y},{0,0},{0,0},{0,0},{0,0},{0,0}}
(It's worth your while to read and try the Mathematica documentation
about List some more. Don't use iteration if you don't need to.)
Guofeng Zhang wrote:
> Hi, there,
> I'd like to construct a vector whose elements are also vectors. I used
> the following conmands:
>
> Table[stat[i], {i, 1, 10}];
> For[i = 1, i <= 10, (stat[i] = Array[0 &, {10, 2}]); i++];
>
> Then I try
> stat[1]
> which yields
> {{0, 0}, {0, 0}, {0, 0}, {0, 0}, {0, 0}, {0, 0}, {0, 0}, {0, 0}, {0, 0},
> {0, 0}}
>
> This seems okay. However, I don't know how to endow values to it, for
> instance change the first {0, 0} to {1,0}.
>
> Thank you for your time and help!
> Henry
>
>
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