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Re: statistics on large arrays [message #14680] Wed, 24 March 1999 00:00 Go to previous message
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In article <dcDJ2.929$Rd5.1323@news.flash.net>,
Steve Carothers <onav1@flash.net> wrote:
> Is there a limit to how large an array can be when finding the average or
> stdev of the entire array? I have an array of about 630,000 elements. When
> I try to find the average, the result is "NaNQ".

Are all of the values in the array defined values (i.e. not Inf or NaN)?
An Inf or a NaN in an array will cause the average to be NaN.

Eric

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