[Cs254f11] Wow. Basic question

[Lee Spector]

Yeah, "distinct" is really useful. As is "frequencies". These are particularly nice because writing them from scratch is a pain, and it turns out that they can be used in all sorts of unexpected situations to make it easy to do things that seemed hard at first. Sort of like "sort" can be used in lots of situations.

 -Lee

On Oct 26, 2011, at 10:01 AM, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:

> Ha! See, I knew it would be that simple. I didn't realize that "vector" was a function. But of course it is :)
> Now another question - there must be a neat function that takes a collection and returns a collection of the unique values, yes? Like if I had
> 
> ( a b c d a b e d g h d r q)
> 
> it would return
> 
> (a b c d e g h r q)
> 
> Oh wait, just found it. It's called "distinct". I knew it would exist :)
> 
> Excellent. Now my "count the frequencies of all the notes in the song" function should run much faster.
> 
> Thanks,
>   -Josiah
> 
> 
> Lee Spector wrote:
>> (def a '(1 2 3 4 5))
>> 
>> (def b '(i j l k m))
>> 
>> (map vector a b)
>> 
>> ; ([1 i] [2 j] [3 l] [4 k] [5 m])
>> 
>> That what you wanted?
>> 
>> -Lee
>> 
>> 
>> On Oct 25, 2011, at 11:00 PM, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:
>> 
>>  
>>> I must be up too late.
>>> 
>>> I have a list, a, and another list, b.
>>> 
>>> I want to make a new list of two-item vectors that is both lists put together, so that it will look like ([(nth a 1)(nth b 1)][(nth a 2)(nth b 2)][(nth a 3)(nth b 3)])
>>> 
>>> ...and so on. interleave doesn't quite do what I want. Maybe in the morning it will occur to me how to do this without a loop. If it's obvious to somebody else, will you help me out?
>>> 
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> 
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>>> Wm. Josiah Erikson
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>>> Hampshire College
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>> Cognitive Science, Hampshire College
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> 
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> Wm. Josiah Erikson
> Network Engineer
> Hampshire College
> Amherst, MA 01002
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