Mac OS 9.1. MC v 2.4.2 It seems that MC functions
average () stdDev () min () Max () Are limited to number of items they can process. Not sure about exact number (uint2 = 65,535 bytes?) but it breaks somewhere after 65000 items Below is the example to illustrate on mouseup repeat 100000 put random (21) &"," after tCKfunction end repeat delete char -1 of tCKfunction answer "sum = "& sum (tCKfunction)&cr&"StdDev = "& stdDev (tCKfunction)&cr&"ave = " & average (tCKfunction) put number of items of tCKfunction into N put 0 into countSumOFSqrs put 0 into tcount repeat for each item i in tCKfunction add i^2 to countSumOFSqrs add i to tcount end repeat put sqrt ((countSumOFSqrs-(((sum (tCKfunction))^2)/N))/(n-1)) into tDev answer "sum = "&tcount&cr&"stdDev = "&tDev&cr&"ave = "& tcount / N end mouseup Also, it seems that maximum allowable value for the tabstops in field is 32767 and there are anomalies in field behavior if the height/width of the field is greater then 32767 pixels (I once tried to use such field inside the group control with vertical scrollbar) Anyway this limitations are not mentioned in MetaTalk reference stack under "limits" and I thought this observations will be in some use for someone who deals with large amounts of data in their scripts. Unfortunately, MC is not returning error messages like "limit exceeded" in such cases, just the wrong number - and I had a hard time debugging it in relatively complex handler. Best regards Tariel Gogoberidze P.S. On the positive site ;-) sum () function seems to be working with any number of items (I tested for up to 500 000 items) _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard