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Re: Two questions related to Arrays

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  • Subject: [mg113313] Re: Two questions related to Arrays
  • From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
  • Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 07:05:51 -0400 (EDT)

Are you confounding..

   (1) Array, which is a built-in object in Mathematica that can be used 
to produce lists as its results; with

  (3) "array" as the term is often used?

The first argument is a List, not an Array, albeit a nested list.

On 10/22/2010 1:35 AM, Sam Takoy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First, why doesn't the following return the first two elements of the
> outer list:
>
>
> Cases[{{{1}, {2}}, {3, 4}, {{5}, 6}}, _Array]
>
>
>
> Second, I'm looking for help writing a function
>
> f[t__]:=
>
> that returns Outer[Times, u] where u only includes the input variables
> that are Arrays.
>
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Sam
>

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