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Re: VALUE_LOCATE tutorial [message #67016 is a reply to message #67012]

Thu, 25 June 2009 16:00

David Fanning
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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.

Cheers,

David

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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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