Questions tagged [list-manipulation]
Questions on the manipulation of List objects in Mathematica, and the functions used for these manipulations.
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Best use of steel bar cut for mechanical study
I have available a steel bar with length of 3000 mm.
I intend to get the best use of cutting out of this bar.
I need to cut this steel bar in the following lengths: 230mm, 260mm, 320mm, 350mm and ...
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How to join many columns of data in array?
I have large number of columns of data. How to put in single matrix?
For example, with test data of 1 x 3 matrixs
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Animated Lissajous Curves Parametric Plot
I love mathematical GIFs' power to illustrate and communicate math concepts widely. I haven't had much luck with the build-in ListAnimate on MMA Online but ...
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Modification to the list of string
Suppose we have a list of the following:
l={"applejuice","lemon_juiceginger"}
How can one modifies this to read as:
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List of function - basis
I would like to define list of function (make polynomial basis as a set of the functions), and then evaluate value of first/ second function in the set.
I have made set of the fuctions that I have ...
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Is it possible or how to extract message string from binarized list?
Given message copied from Silvia's profile page, a binarized list could be found bellow.
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DeleteDuplicates not working for a list in main program [on hold]
I have a list of dimension $ 50 \times 1 $. The list has some duplicates, I used DeleteDuplicates to delete repeated elements, which however seems not working.
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How to Partition rest rows by the first row?
Given a list
lst = {{{"1","2","3"},{"4","5"},{"6","7","8","9"}},
{ "A","B","C","D","E","F","G","H","I"},
{ "9","8","7","6","5","4","3","2","1"}};
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How to concatenate list of integers into a single number
Is there a way to concatenate the elements of a list into ONE number?
For example, if there is a list L={13,5,8,0}, then I am looking for a way to append ...
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Precalculating ThreeJSymbols to make my program faster
Does anybody have an idea what is the best way to pre-calculate the ThreeJSymbols in order to use them in a loop? (I want to make my program work faster that is why ...
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Selecting from a matrix according to elements of a column — efficiency and speed?
I need to select all elements from matrix M that have in their 3rd column elements from some given list L (3rd column and L are real numbers). I have written the most obvious (to me) command to select ...
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Generate this sequence more efficiently
Is there a more effecient way to generate the sequence shown below.
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Interpretation of a 1x1 matrix, rank 1 vector, and a scalar?
This is a seemingly trivial question, but I'd like to understand how to correctly treat matrices (and I guess rows/columns in Mathematica). I'm having fun figuring out how to express rows and columns ...
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Help with weird behaviour of Map[Take… on large lists
Lets say I create a giant list:
tmp=RandomReal[{1,10},600000000];
Now I want to take 10 random sublists of length 150000:
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Removing anomalous points from data
I have two sets of 2d-data points which can be transformed in each other by using a certain transformation function.
The problem is that in both data sets there are points which do not have ...
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Creating a nested table
I have a row of values that I partition into a table.
row = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12};
rowPartitioned = Partition[row, 6]
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Unexpected behaviour of Nothing inside List inside Association
When evaluating the following input:
<|a -> {c, d, e}|> /. d -> Nothing
I get (expression 1):
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Find and number sublists
I implemented the following routine.
array1 = {12, -12, 14, 12, 1, -3, 1, 1, 2, 7, 8, 102, 2, 3, 3, 1, 332,
11, 23, 2, -2, 13, 12, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, -121, 131};
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How to set up patterns when using SequenceSplit
Given a list
lst={0,0,0,0,0,"A1",0,0,0,"B2",0,0,"C3","D4","E5",0,0,0,"F6"}
How to split it as
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Reconstructing a polynomial from its coefficient array
A polynomial coefficient matrix:
mat =
CoefficientList[3 + 5 x^3 + 4 y^3 + 2 x + 6 x^2 y + 7 x y^2 + 8 x y, {x, y}];
\begin{equation}
\left(
\begin{array}{...
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Selecting cases from a list based on two conditions
Let's say we have a list of lists of length 3, as below:
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ListPlot from Table of single input x and many y(x) output
Suppose have data for several x and several y(x), for example
mydata = {{11, 1.1, 2.3, 2.4}, {12, 1.3, 1.4, 1.9}, {13, 1.8, 1.7, 1.2}}
mydata // MatrixForm
So
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Finding members of the list that share a common element
Let's say I have a list:
{{1}, {2}, {3}, {4}, {1, 2}, {2, 3}, {3, 4}, {1, 2, 3}, {2, 3, 4}, {1, 2, 3, 4}}
and I want to find all the members of that list that ...
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Add value to nonzero elements of symbolic matrix
I would like to add a certain placeholder O to any nonzero element of a matrix. The matrix has elements which are not number but complicated symbolic expressions.
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How can I check if elements between lists are equal? [duplicate]
Say I have two lists:
list1 = {a, b, c, d}
list2 = {b, b, d, d}
And I want to get the output
{False, True, False, True}
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Create a polynomial from a list of coefficients [duplicate]
First I have to extract coefficients from a polynomial.Then I have to make a polynomial from by given list and show that they are identical. So I tried like this:
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Locating Points “orderly” within a cube [closed]
I have a small question about creating a 3D array of particles. It's necessary that 265 particles are located orderly within a unit cube. One hint is to use a simple cubic structure but I don't see ...
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Obtain argument of tensor product
I want to obtain the argument of a TensorProduct as a list of elements by applying another function.
For example, I wish to write a function h which, when applied to a tensor product, produces the ...
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How do I use drop to drop the second element from all these sublists? [duplicate]
{{1, 2}, {2, 3}, {5, 4}}
I tried to do this:
Drop[#, {2}] & @@ {{1, 2}, {2, 3}, {5, 4}}
but it gave
{1}
but what I want is
{{1},{2},{5}}
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Monitoring the Training Progress through PutAppend
I would like to export the round loss during my model training for each training round. Currently, I am using the way shown in the Documentation Center around TrainingProgressFunction and PutAppend:
<...
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How to do a list partition with offset, overhang, and cyclical padding? [closed]
I have a list as
{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}
I want to extract a new list as
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Turn the following values into percentage [closed]
I have the following data:
{2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017}
{5914, 6143, 6182, 18000, 18173, 18344, 18454, 18506, 18800, 19216}
My data is already in Matrix form in ...
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Fastest way to go from linear index to grid index
I'm sure this has been asked before but I'm interested in going from a position in a vector to the index in the grid version of the vector with given strides, for example, say I have the vector:
<...
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How to determine the longest edge in a graph?
I have a list of 2D points such as in the image.
coord = {{0, 0}, {10, 0}, {20, 0}, {30, 0}, {25, 10}, {0, 10}, {0,
5}};
I would like to determine the longest "...
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Delete elements of list with certain length
I have a list containing some other lists having different lengths. I want to remove some of the lists with a certain length. For example, I have
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Take single element of a list, and compare to average of whole list
If I have a list
lst = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5};
Is there some way of taking the first element and then comparing it to the average of the other 4? Then to take element 2 ...
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Sorting of a list with different lengths
I have a list of disordered numbers. They are collected in different lists. I mean
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Indices of nonzero rows in a sparse array
Given $A\!\in\!\mathbb{Z}^{m\times n}$ stored as a=SparseArray[{...},{m,n}], how can I obtain the list of all indices $i\!\in\!\{1,\ldots,m\}$ for which the $i$-th ...
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How to avoid “if statement” in Mathematica?
I have a list of 100 vectors 2D (x,y) defined by RandomReal[1.0, {100, 2}] and a given forward vector such as {1, 1}. My ...
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How to remove vertices from a graph?
I have 2 lists: list 1 is a list of vertices of a graph, says, {1,2,3,4,5} and list 2 keeps track of edges (i.e which vertex connects to which) such as {{1,2}, {2,3},{3,4},{4,1},{2,5}}. Now I want to ...
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How to find a smallest value in a list? [closed]
I have a list of point2d coordinate {x,y}. I would like to find the point where x is the smallest. How can I do it in Mathematica?
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Read text files as sparse arrays and concatenate in a loop
I would like to read multiple text files and build a sparse array by concatenating row-wise one after the other. The text files are ordered in the following format:
\begin{matrix}
0, & 0, &...
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How to add brackets to list [closed]
I have for example set of points
p={1/5,1/2}
and I would like to add brackets to the list, so I would like to get a set of points
p2={{1/5},{1/2}}
I know how to remove brackets, but I cant ...
