function for greatest object in list less than or equal to a value
BNig
bernd.niggemann at uni-wh.de
Mon Oct 12 19:05:33 EDT 2015
hh wrote
> [@Bernd: here a PONG to your PING.]
>
> Obviously each list member has to be inspected once for the comparison.
> And each "smaller than"-member has to be inspected once again to find
> the maximum. There is no other way, this is a math fact.
>
> Here is my solution, that seems to be pretty fast.
>
> -- v is a real num, L is a list of real comma-delimites nums
> -- if L has NO member < v then return MINVAL (=your setting)
> -- Empty members are treated as 0 (doesn't harm, if all x>0)
> -- Pre-sorting of L gives no advantage.
>
> function greatestMemberSmallerThan v,L
> put -10^15 into z[true] --> because max(empty)=0
> repeat for each item x in L
> -- if x is empty then next repeat --> here not necessary
> put comma & x after z[x<v]
> end repeat
> return max( z[true] )
> end greatestMemberSmallerThan
Hermann, you know that math is my weak spot (among others) but whatever math
says in my code I don't touch every member of the list, in my case the
sorting has "touched" ever member and I can safely do my "binary search"
type of thing. Missing values are no problem but empty items would.
did you benchmark my snippet and yours say on a list of 100000 items?
Kind regards
Bernd
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