Questions tagged [list-manipulation]
Questions on the manipulation of List objects in Mathematica, and the functions used for these manipulations.
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Second Attempt at Explaining Average and Checking it using Code
I'm unable to load my original post. The editor stated, "Code is not properly formatted" so I used screenshots.
Here is a link which could have been used. It gave an approach to a previous ...
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How to compile a function that takes a list of arguments using InlineExternalDefinitions?
I can do this right now, but I'd love to make the argument a list. (I have a compiled implementation of Linear Solve from here https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/a/91881/73342).
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Create a list that always ends with two 1's but starts with a variable amount of 0's
I want to create a variable list like this:
{0, 0, ..., 0, 0, 1, 1}
This list would grow list this, starting with no 0's, but then gaining more 0's to the left the ...
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Generalizing previous question: Partition $[a,b]$ into $m$ sub-intervals and count number of sub-interval intersecting $A_1\subseteq[a,b]$?
In my previous question, How to partition $[a,b]$ into $m$ equal sub-intervals and count the number of sub-intervals that intersect with a subset of $[a,b]$?, I was given an answer to my specific ...
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Swap two numbers - but only in a particular context
I have a list of terms such as {2*s[1,2]^2, 3*s[3,5]^4, ...} and I would like to have a replacement that swaps $2 \leftrightarrow 4, 3 \leftrightarrow 1$, but only ...
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Using coding to calculate my average for functions defined on countable sets?
Suppose we have a function $f:A\to\mathbb{R}$ where $A\subseteq[a,b]$, $a,b\in\mathbb{R}$ and $S\subseteq A$.
Now suppose $f$ is
$$f(x)=\begin{cases}
x^2+1 & x\in S_1\\
x & x\in S_2\\
\end{...
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Applying function on specific element of a list of list
I have the following list (3D data) and would like to apply the RootMeanSquare function on the fourth elements of each sublist. In fact, I am looking for ...
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How to use a list inside Compileāit says it should be a machine-size real number?
Super simple question, but I'm lost here.
f = Compile[{{a, _Real}, {b, _Real}, {c, _Real}},
x /. NSolve[a x^2 + b x + c == 0, {x}]]
f[1., -4., -5.]
gives the ...
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How to add a removed element to the associated sublist after manipulating a list
I have the attached point list and use the following script to cluster the points. The clustering should just be applied to the first three-member of each sublist so I removed the fourth element from ...
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Generate a list of rules from two rules
I have two lists:
a = {a1,a2,a3}
b = {b1,b2,b3}
and I want to generate a list of replacement rules
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Why are more highly nested lists often not more memory and time-intensive?
I would expect more highly nested lists, being deeper and more complex than flatter lists, to take up more space (bytecount) and take more time and memory to operate on in general. Consider the ...
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How to partition $[a,b]$ into $m$ equal sub-intervals and count the number of sub-intervals that intersect with a subset of $[a,b]$?
Suppose we have a subset of $[a,b]$, where $a=0$ and $b=1$, such as
$$A_1=\left\{\frac{1}{2^x}+\frac{1}{2^y}+\frac{1}{2^z}:x,y,z\in\mathbb{Z}\right\}\cap[0,1]$$
Which is a subset of $[0,1]$
If we ...
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How to use ReplaceAll iteratively over a list of lists?
I want to build a matrix J for each of the solutions of an equation.
And each solution is also a set of 3 variables (x,y,z).
In ...
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How to partition $[0,1]$ into $m$ equal sub-intervals and count the number of sub-intervals that intersect with my cantor set?
Suppose I define my cantor set as
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How to apply a function to one part while keeping the rest
I have a list and want to apply a function just on the second Part and keep the rest.
t1 = Table[{k, 2^k + 1}, {k, 2, 7}]
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Creating a list with Thread
I have a list like this one:
aaah= {{11, 21, 31}, {12, 22, 32}, {13, 23, 33}}
and I finally want to get a list which looks like this one:
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How to get a list of exponentially distributed points sampled in a range
I want to get 256 points exponentially sampled in a range, and then get its histogram.
If I plot PDF, I get the following:
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Counting the number of occurrences of specific values in a list in specific intervals
If the variable "digits" contains 10,000 digits from 0 to 9. How can the number of occurrences of 1s and 2s be counted in every 1000 digit intervals, that is to say the number of 1s and 2s ...
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Use Cases with empty cells in the list
I work with a complex dataset. The most simple form of this list looks like:
dat1 = {{a, b, c, {}}, {d, e, f, {1}}, {h, i, j, {2}}}
I want to select the nested {} ...
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Building a matrix from the columns of others
A is a n x m matrix, B is a matrix p x m, I wish to build C from appending the ith column of A and ith column of B, for all i ...
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Using DateListPlot without connecting dots [closed]
I have a list of values like this:
When I plot this data using DateListPlot[data] I get a plot connecting the individual points such as:
My question are:
How can ...
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Find rules for the similar “Conway's Game of Life”, and initial input on an 11x11 torus board. Descripted on the “Puzzel Chalenge IBM May”2020"
I solved on May 2020 this using mma . I am aware of
this command - Cellular automata.
But I can't use it on this challenge, because there's no concept of "Torus" in the CellularAutomaton . ...
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Thread::tdlen: Objects of unequal length in {{a,b,e},{c,d,f}} {x,y,z} cannot be combined
When I do the Times operation among list like this {{a, b, e}, {c, d, f}}*{x, y, z}, the error message is given as Thread::tdlen: Objects of unequal length in ...
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Finding points located in a specific locations of a 3D objects
I have the following list of points in 3D and would like to find the points which are located on the lower edge of the object and on (or closest distance to) the X-Y or Y-Z plane of the symmetry. (...
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How to select radicand
Given
t1 = {1, Sqrt[2], Sqrt[3], 2, Sqrt[5], Sqrt[6], Sqrt[7], 2 Sqrt[31], 3, Sqrt[10], Sqrt[11], 2 Sqrt[17]};
I just want to get all radicands, which would yield
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Exporting Nodal Surfaces/Minimal Surfaces as any 3D source (obj,stl,mb…)
I have been trying to export the surfaces that I gathered in the Wolfram Mathematica application,
So is there any way to export surface this to Maya,Cinema 4D, Rhino , or any 3D environment for 3D ...
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Find a sublist with closest X and Y to a specific point in 3D
I have the following list of points and would like to know how I can find the sublist (i.e. point) which has a closest X and Y value to the X and Y value of a specific point (e.g here b1 ={{-20.6105, -...
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How to manipulate solution outputs that appear in a list? [closed]
I have a list {E, {p, Ļ}}, and I need values E, p, and Ļ ...
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How to change a list of values into variables? [closed]
I have a list {E, {p, Ļ}}, and I need values E, p, and Ļ ...
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Finding lower boundary of a 3D object in list format
I have the following point list and would like to find the points located in the lower boundary of the 3D object (It is part of a body torso).
https://pastebin.com/L12n0Gfr
I am using the following ...
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Plot 2D into discrete 3D [closed]
I want to do a 3D plot of this functiony[x_, r_] = -Tan[r] x where I get a set of lines evenly distributed on the r axis, with a discrete distribution.
This is what ...
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Replacing a submatrix of a matrix
Minding the fact that
In[102]:= {{1, 2, 3}, {4, 5, 6}, {7, 8, 9}}[[1 ;; 2, 1 ;; 2]]
Out[102]= {{1, 2}, {4, 5}}
is the upper left submatrix.
I would like to do the ...
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Substituting values from an association thread into a table of expressions
I have asked a question here. Yet I am trying to do the same procedure with AssociationThread Suppose I have the following function which is a normal distribution:
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Substituting elements of lists into an expression
Suppose I have the following lists,
as = {1, 2, 3, 4};
bs = {10, 20, 30, 40};
and the following expression:
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Select lists where last elements are identical
Given the following list
t1 = {{5, 5, 50}, {6, 1, 37}, {6, 2, 40}, {6, 3, 45}, {7, 4, 65}, {7, 6, 85}, {8, 1, 65}, {6, 6, 72}, {7, 1, 50}};
I want to find those ...
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How to use Quartiles to work the same as TI-83 calculator? [closed]
The statistics book I am using defines quartiles the same as Method 1 explained in wikipedia.
Use the median to divide the ordered data set into two-halves.
If there is an odd number of data points ...
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Thread and RandomReal
I am trying to use Thread to apply a function involving RandomReal but it does not work as I expected.
If I have the function
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How do you take position “x” in multiple sublists to make a new list?
this is a rather rudimentary question, but I was wondering if there are more efficient ways to do the following:
dd = {{{12, 3, 5}, {14, 10, 11}}, {{15, 76, 65}}}
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Precisión of the numbers inside a list
I'm trying to become a List like this
list={1.34,2.64,5.098,6.432}
in a list where the numbers have precision of one digit, like this
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How do we list all points in the Middle $3/7$-th Cantor Set?
Suppose we were to list all points in the $3/7$th Middle Cantor set where we first remove $3/7$th of $[0,1]$:
$$[0,1/7]\cup[2/7,3/7]\cup[4/7,5/7]\cup[6/7,1]$$
then $3/7$th of remaining intervals, $3/7$...
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How to classify an ordered ascending {0, 5, 5, 10, 19, 22, 23} into several classes {{0,9},{10,19}, …}?
I attempted to classify an increasingly ordered list into several classes to make frequency distribution table. I am faced with a difficulty to nest two pure functions: one for ...
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How to program a situation like the following in mathematics and generalize the process to other configurations?
Distribute the numbers from 1 to 10(view image) so that the sum of each row and each column is the same and
a) the maximum possible
b) the minimum possible
(I put it from 1 to 10 for ease)
I know it ...
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How to find the smallest position of an element of an ascending list {1,4,10,12,20} such that the element is not less than 11?
Assume I have an ordered, ascending list {1,4,10,12,20}.
I want to find the smallest position of an element of the list such that the element is not less than 11?
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Selecting elements of a list based on specific elements of their sublist
I have the following list
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How can I iteratively add elements to a list
Basically I want to make a histogram with a list of dates by using DateHistogram[]. However I have the data of the dates in nested list format, with elements like ...
