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Re: Partition a list based on columns

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• Subject: [mg119665] Re: Partition a list based on columns
• From: Ray Koopman <koopman at sfu.ca>
• Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:06:31 -0400 (EDT)
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On Jun 16, 1:02 am, StatsMath <stats.ma... at gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
>
> What would be a good way to line up elements in a list in a diagonal
> fashion, for ex: from Range[9] want to create the follwing matrix:
>
> 1 2 4
> 3 5 7
> 6 8 9

This is better than my previous suggestion:

m[n_] := Partition[FoldList[Plus,0,Join[Range[n-1],Range[n-1,1,-1]]],
                   n, 1] + Range[n]

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