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Re: Something very simple.....

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  • Subject: [mg87121] Re: Something very simple.....
  • From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
  • Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 05:19:43 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: Uni Leipzig
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  • Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de

Hi,

Sphere @@@ sphlst

??

Regards
   Jens

Steve Gray wrote:
> 1. I have a list of sphere centers and radii like this:
> 
> sphlst={{{ 5.11,  0.76, -0.32}, 100.39}, 
> 	{{ 7.18, -1.86, -8.19},  98.02}, 
> 	{{26.71, -9.30, -6.85}, 111.27},
> 	{{    0,     0,     0}, 100.00},
> 	{{ 8.65,  4.28, -3.81}, 103.87}}.
> 
> If I do Map[Sphere,sphlst] I get too many braces, like this:
> 
> {Sphere[{{ 5.11,  0.76, -0.32}, 100.39}], 
>  Sphere[{{ 7.18, -1.86, -8.19}, 98.02}], 
>  Sphere[{{26.71, -9.30, -6.85}, 111.27}], 
>  Sphere[{{    0,     0,     0}, 100.00}], 
>  Sphere[{{ 8.65,  4.28, -3.81}, 103.87}]}
> 
> and Sphere needs for example Sphere[{1.11, 2.22, 3.33},4.5]. 
> What simple thing am I missing to remove the extra braces?
> (I know I can use Table but isn't there a "one-step" method?)
> Flatten doesn't seem to be useful here, or I'm using it wrong.
> 
> 2. I have two lists, lsta={a,b,c,d,e,f} and lstb={1,3,4}.
> I want the elements of lsta that do NOT correspond to elements
> of lstb, in this case everything from lsta except elements
> 1,3, and 4: result={b,e,f}. 
> (lstb won't have entries larger than Length[lsta]).
> 
> Thanks for any tips.
> 
> Steve Gray
> 


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