I've edited the title because I forgot to include a description of
what I'm trying to do in the original post's title.

Mark, thanks for the example.

mh

On Jul 20, 11:13 am, Mark Rathwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> There are several ways to do it, but one example using list comprehension:
>
> (let [nums [1 2 3]]
>   (for [n1 nums]
>     (for [n2 nums]
>       (* n1 n2))))
>
> => ((1 2 3) ( 2 4 6) (3 6 9))
>
>  - Mark
>
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Michael Harrison (goodmike) <
>
> [email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm working on a project that involves calculating statistical
> > distance between the elements of a set. This is conceptually like a
> > distance chart between cities that often appears on a travel map, or
> > even a child's multiplication table with the numbers 1 - 10 running
> > across the top and down the left of the table and the products of the
> > numbers in the middle.
>
> > All the sample code I've seen for doing something like this is
> > imperative: an outer loop running over the whole set of items, and an
> > inner loop running over the items between the outer loop's item and
> > the end of the set. The calculated distance between the outer loop's
> > current item and the inner loop's current item gets stuck in a 2-D
> > array.
>
> > I know it's possible to do something like this by going down to java
> > interop, but I feel there must be a more appropriately Clojure way to
> > handle this. I'm not sure how to find it, though. It seems like a math
> > or statistics problem that must be common enough that there is a right
> > way to tackle it. Do any of you laziness and FP wizards have
> > suggestions?
>
> > Thanks!
> > Michael
>
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