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Re: Random selection of pairs [message #51244]

Sun, 12 November 2006 04:55

Julio[1]
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Registered: May 2005

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Thanks guys... it will help.

Cheers,
Julio

Michael Galloy escreveu:

> Kenneth P. Bowman wrote:
>> It will be much simpler, and probably much quicker, to read all
>> of the pairs and then pick 100 randomly, like this script named
>> select_random:
>>
>> x = findgen(2, 1000) ;create fake lon-lat data
>> r = RANDOMU(seed, 1000) ;generate random numbers
>> j = (SORT(r))[0:9] ;find indices of 10 smallest numbers
>
> Yes, I think this is the way to do it.
>
> It won't help here with only 1000 elements, but I have a routine to get
> the indices of the n smallest (or largest) values in an array. It uses
> HISTOGRAM and REVERSE_INDICES instead of the SORT in the line
>
> j = (SORT(r))[0:9]
>
> The article describing it is at:
>
> http://michaelgalloy.com/2006/06/02/finding-the-n-smallest-e lements-in-an-array.html
>
>
> Mike
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		Re: Random selection of pairs By: Julio[1] on Sun, 12 November 2006 04:55
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