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Re: VALUE_LOCATE tutorial [message #67017 is a reply to message #67016]

Thu, 25 June 2009 15:48

ben.bighair
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On Jun 25, 5:21 pm, "Kenneth P. Bowman" <k-bow...@null.edu> wrote:
> I think VALUE_LOCATE may have come out of this discussion
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.idl-pvwave/browse_t hread/thr...
>
> back in 1998.
>
> I think I submitted an official feature request to what was then RSI, and
> in my own mind I like to take credit for VALUE_LOCATE. :-)
>
> Ken

Hi,

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?

Cheers,
Ben

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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
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