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Re: working with lists

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  • Subject: [mg113228] Re: working with lists
  • From: Tomas Garza <tgarza10 at msn.com>
  • Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 05:57:27 -0400 (EDT)
  • References: <201010180947.FAA00936@smc.vnet.net>

I may have missed something, but shouldn't f[{ 1 2 3 5 7}] be { 1 2 6 4 6}? AFAIK 7 is not divisible by 3.



> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 05:47:02 -0400
> From: sam.takoy at yahoo.com
> Subject: [mg113194] working with lists
> To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm not very good at working with lists. May I ask for someone to work
> out an example which has several elements of what I need to do.
>
> What's the best way to write a function f[list] that goes through each
> element of the lest, doubles each element divisible by three and reduces
> each of the following elements by 1. That is
>
>
> f[{ 1 2 3 5 7}] is { 1 2 6 4 12 }
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Sam
>


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