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FoldList
Differences
Total
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MovingAverage
LinearRecurrence
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Applying Functions to Lists
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Accumulate
Accumulate
[
list
]
gives a list of the successive accumulated totals of elements in
list
.
MORE INFORMATION
If
list
has length
n
, then
Accumulate
[
list
]
will have the same length.
Accumulate
[
list
]
is effectively equivalent to
Rest
[
FoldList
[
Plus
, 0,
list
]]
.
Accumulate
[
list
,
Method
->"CompensatedSummation"]
uses compensated summation to reduce numerical error in the result.
EXAMPLES
CLOSE ALL
Basic Examples
(2)
Cumulative sums:
In[1]:=
Out[1]=
Accumulate within columns:
In[1]:=
Out[1]=
Generalizations & Extensions
(1)
Applications
(4)
Properties & Relations
(3)
Neat Examples
(1)
SEE ALSO
FoldList
Differences
Total
Sum
Plus
MovingAverage
LinearRecurrence
MORE ABOUT
Applying Functions to Lists
Arithmetic Functions
Data Transforms and Smoothing
Discrete & Integer Data
Discrete Calculus
Math & Counting Operations on Lists
Numerical Data
Summary of New Features in 7.0
RELATED LINKS
Demonstrations with Accumulate
(
Wolfram Demonstrations Project
)
New in 6 | Last modified in 7
EXAMPLES
Basic Examples 
Generalizations & Extensions 