I am not sure to really understand how the function Apply works at level 2 for example.
I have read this question and few others and it doesn't help me :Levels: how do they work?
Take the following example :
liste5 = Array[m, {2, 2, 2}]
{{{m[1, 1, 1], m[1, 1, 2]}, {m[1, 2, 1], m[1, 2, 2]}}, {{m[2, 1, 1],
m[2, 1, 2]}, {m[2, 2, 1], m[2, 2, 2]}}}
liste5 // TreeForm
Here is the Tree that shows up in mathematica. I added the numbers of the level on the left.
I want to apply a function at level 2 :
Apply[fonction, liste5, {2}]
{{fonction[m[1, 1, 1], m[1, 1, 2]], fonction[m[1, 2, 1], m[1, 2, 2]]}, {fonction[m[2, 1, 1], m[2, 1, 2]], fonction[m[2, 2, 1], m[2, 2, 2]]}}
What I don't understand :
From what I understood, apply goes at level 2 of the tree, and replace the Head there by the function "fonction". So in practice in this example I would have 4 trees where I replace their heads by "fonction" and I return the whole in a list.
Thus, the result should be :
{fonction @@ liste5[[1, 1]], fonction @@ liste5[[1, 2]],
fonction @@ liste5[[2, 1]], fonction @@ liste5[[2, 2]]}
{fonction[m[1, 1, 1], m[1, 1, 2]], fonction[m[1, 2, 1], m[1, 2, 2]],
fonction[m[2, 1, 1], m[2, 1, 2]], fonction[m[2, 2, 1], m[2, 2, 2]]}
However, it is not the case.
Said differently, why do I have a 2 dimensional list as a result and not a 1 dimensional one ? Why are the two first branch of level 2 "regrouped" together in a way ?
