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1.8.11 Mathematical Operations on Lists

Section 2.2.3 will discuss in detail how to do mathematical operations on lists. Here are a couple of cases that often occur in practice; Section 2.2.3 will give many generalizations.


Simple mathematical operations on lists.

  • This adds all the elements in a list.
  • In[1]:= Apply[Plus, {a, b, c, d}]

    Out[1]=



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