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Listable

Usage

Listable is an attribute that can be assigned to a symbol f to indicate that the function f should automatically be threaded over lists that appear as its arguments.


Notes

Listable functions are effectively applied separately to each element in a list, or to corresponding elements in each list if there is more than one list.
• Most built-in mathematical functions are Listable.
• Example: Log is Listable. Log[ a,b,c ]LongRightArrow .
• All the arguments which are lists in a Listable function must be of the same length.
• Arguments that are not lists are copied as many times as there are elements in the lists.
• Example: Plus is Listable.  a, b, c + xLongRightArrow .
• See Section 2.6.3.
• See also: Thread, Map, Sequence, SparseArray.
• New in Version 1.


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