Re: Sum pattern
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- Subject: [mg128280] Re: Sum pattern
- From: Ray Koopman <koopman at sfu.ca>
- Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 23:39:35 -0400 (EDT)
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On Oct 3, 12:12 am, "Dave Snead" <dsne... at charter.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to put together a rule whose left hand side is a sum of arbitrary > length whose elements all have the same head f. > > For example: > > In[4]:= x = f[a1, s] + f[a2, s] + f[a3, s] > > Out[4]= f[a1, s] + f[a2, s] + f[a3, s] > > In[6]:= y = f[First /@ x, s] > > Out[6]= f[a1 + a2 + a3, s] > > which is what I want. > > However when I turn this into a rule > > In[7]:= z = x /. (p : Plus[__f]) -> f[First /@ p, s] > > Out[7]= f[f[a1, s], s] + f[f[a2, s], s] + f[f[a3, s], s] > > Why isn't z equal to y? > How can I make this rule work? > > Thanks in advance, > Dave Snead In[1]:= x = f[a1,s] + f[a2,s] + f[a3,s] Out[1]= f[a1,s] + f[a2,s] + f[a3,s] In[2]:= x //. f[a_,c_] + f[b_,c_] -> f[a+b,c] Out[2]= f[a1+a2+a3,s]