You can make lists in Desmos using square brackets like this:
You can create lists with evenly spaced elements. [1,...,10] is a list of the integers between 1 and 10. [1,3,...,11] is a list of the odd integers between 1 and 11. Table columns are available as lists in the rest of the system.
You can use lists anywhere in expressions that you would use a number.
What is the maximum length of a list? May I have 16,000 elements in it?
Can I access an item of a specific index? Say I have a list (or a table) and I want the last item in the list. Is there a way to do this?
Kashi - you can find a certain number in a list like x1[3] will give the 3rd number in the x1 list.
Can you concatenate lists? For example, if I have a=[1,2,3,4] and b=[5,4,3,2,1] and I want to get c=[1,2,3,4,5,4,3,2,1] can I do something like c=a+b?
Aran - not currently, but it's on our list!
Can you get multiple entries from an list, like getting entries 2 to 6, but in one thing? If not, how could you get Quartile 1 and Quartile 3 from any given list?
You can try something like this to reference certain elements in a list: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/zcyahozrpb
I made two original equations to go from binary to decimal and decimal to binary. The binary to decimal uses the lists feature in desmos. I was wondering if there was any way that I could make a number into a list so that I could just type in the number in a function I guess and use that list instead of putting a comma after every single digit in a 20 digits long binary string.
Bryan Garcia, The trick is to use an intermediary list. I made an example that will convert a decimal whole number to a list of digits. You can modify it as needed. https://www.desmos.com/calculator/7dsepfo2pe
MrYurihi redstone, You can use the quantile function in the stats menu. To get Q1 and Q3 of a list A you would use the commands quantile(A,.25) and quantile(A,.75). You can even use the quantile function to sort a list. The worksheet https://www.desmos.com/calculator/rfgwycggun shows an example of a sorted list along with a method to concatenate lists or to get a sublist,
Aran Glancy,
see here for concatenating lists
I have an equation with 2 parameters (say A and B) in it, and I want to show all the graphs with all combinations of A and B at integers from 1 to 10. If I put A=[1,...,10] and then B=[1,...,10], I only get the graphs for A ranging from 1 to 10 with B fixed at 1. How do I show combinations of choices for the two parameters?
Joe. There are currently no methods for iterating over two lists as you requested. Instead, you could make two lists of length 100 to cover all the ordered pairs. The worksheet https://www.desmos.com/calculator/cg2i9poeub has an example showing how that might be done.
Okay thanks. I had already done the thing you suggested.
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