Re: something like a modulo function (but not)?

[E. Joshua Rigler]

Yes, this is perfect.  Thanks!

-EJR

On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 11:28, Robert A. Macy wrote:
> does 
> mod(idx1-1,5)+1
> work?
> 
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 11:15:09 -0600
>  "E. Joshua Rigler" <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I feel a little silly even asking this question, but
> > since when has that
> > stopped me :^)?  I have a vector of sequential indices to
> > a 2-D matrix
> > that I want to convert to a set of column-wise vector
> > indices.  For
> > example a particular 5x5 matrix would be fortran indexed
> > as:
> > 
> >         mtrx = [ 1   6  11  16  21 ]
> >                  [ 2   7  12  17  22 ]
> >                  [ 3   8  13  18  23 ]
> >                  [ 4   9  14  19  24 ]
> >                  [ 5  10  15  20  25 ]
> >         
> > I extract a subset of this matrix that gives me the
> > following vector of
> > indices:
> > 
> >         idx1 = [ 3   5   8  10  13  15  18  20  23  25 ]
> > 
> > and wish to convert it to something like:
> > 
> >         idx2 = [ 3   5   3   5    3   5   3    5   3   5
> > ]
> > 
> > The first thing that popped into my head was that I would
> > need to use
> > the modulo function in Octave (i.e., idx2=mod(idx1,5)),
> > but of course
> > that would give me:
> > 
> >         idx2 = [ 3   0   3   0    3   0   3    0   3   0
> > ]
> > 
> > I guess what I really want is something similar to
> > modulo, except where 
> > mod(n,I*n)=n,  not zero ("I" is an integer).  The best
> > solution I could
> > come up with on my own is:
> > 
> >         octave:44> idx2 = mod(idx1,5)+(mod(idx1,5)==0)*5
> >         idx2 =
> >          
> >           3  5  3  5  3  5  3  5  3  5
> >         
> > Can anyone out there suggest something a little more
> > elegant that would
> > have less impact on a long and already computationally
> > intensive
> > iterative function?  Am I just being dense?
> > 
> > -EJR
> > 
> > 
> > 
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