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Re: VALUE_LOCATE tutorial [message #67012 is a reply to message #66996]

Thu, 25 June 2009 16:57

ben.bighair
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Registered: April 2007

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On Jun 25, 7:00 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> ben.bighair writes:
>> If I recall correctly, there is a function in Numerical Recipes for C
>> called locate() that does the bifurcation search on an ordered list
>> that VALUE_LOCATE does. Perhaps that is the origin of the name?
>
> If I'm not mistaken, Al Gore had the original idea for this function.
>

Hmmm. A plurality programmers thought so, too. But the software
judges overruled the will of the masses on this one, too.

Cheers,
Ben
t
P.S. I found this (http://www.nrbook.com/ub30001/nr3-3-1.pdf) but it
doesn't look like the plain old incomprehensible C that I never
figured out. Anyway, there is a routine called locate in there.

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		Re: VALUE_LOCATE tutorial By: Jeremy Bailin on Fri, 26 June 2009 08:54
		Re: VALUE_LOCATE tutorial By: ben.bighair on Thu, 25 June 2009 16:57
		Re: VALUE_LOCATE tutorial By: David Fanning on Thu, 25 June 2009 16:00
		Re: VALUE_LOCATE tutorial By: ben.bighair on Thu, 25 June 2009 15:48
		Re: VALUE_LOCATE tutorial By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Thu, 25 June 2009 14:21
		Re: VALUE_LOCATE tutorial By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Thu, 25 June 2009 14:14
		Re: VALUE_LOCATE tutorial By: Matt[2] on Thu, 25 June 2009 07:07
		Re: VALUE_LOCATE tutorial By: Jeremy Bailin on Wed, 24 June 2009 15:20
		Re: VALUE_LOCATE tutorial By: David Fanning on Wed, 24 June 2009 08:15
		Re: VALUE_LOCATE tutorial By: rogass on Wed, 24 June 2009 00:46

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