Re: Multiplying a vector over multiple vectors
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- Subject: [mg91170] Re: [mg91150] Multiplying a vector over multiple vectors
- From: Oliver Ruebenkoenig <ruebenko at wolfram.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 07:14:30 -0400 (EDT)
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Don, On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Donald DuBois wrote: > How does one get a vector to distribute over > a list of vectors under multiplication? > > For example: > > {{1,2}, {3,4}, {5,6}} times {a,b} should > equal (under this operation) > > {{a, 2b}, {3a, 4b}, {5a, 6b}} > > If {a,b} is duplicated three times one can > use MapThread as in: > > MapThread[Times, {{{1, 2}, {3, 4}, {5, 6}}, {{a, b}, {a, b}, {a, b}}}] > > but duplicating {a,b} using Table is very slow > when the vectors are large (consisting of thousands > of elemets). > > Thanks in advance for any help you can give me. > > Don > you can Map v1 over v2 v1 = {a,b}; v2 = {{1,2}, {3,4}, {5,6}}; Times[v1,#]& /@ v2 Oliver
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- Multiplying a vector over multiple vectors
- From: Donald DuBois <donabc@comcast.net>
- Multiplying a vector over multiple vectors