From: Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com>
Date: 2006-07-05T14:17:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Parallel Array

Nasir Khan wrote:
> If I have two arrays a=[1,1,1,1] and b=[2,2,2,2] and I want to add each
> element up, something like -
> 
> c = a plus b  => [3,3,3,3]
> 
> One way I could think up is -
> 
> irb(main):010:0> (0...a.length).collect{|k| a[k]+b[k]}
> => [3, 3, 3, 3]
> 
> Is there a better/faster way?

I'm not sure about faster, but this is probably more readable:

irb(main):001:0> require "matrix"
=> true
irb(main):002:0> Vector[1,1,1,1] + Vector[2,2,2,2]
=> Vector[3, 3, 3, 3]


Daniel