Aha... So maybe I did miss something. I thought I was able to read enough J to follow this discussion - I did not see any "normalization" and thought the algorithm just used i.~. What did I miss?
-----Original Message----- From: Raul Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 6. juni 2007 23:19 To: General forum Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] Re: Challenge to expert J'ers On 6/6/07, Morten Kromberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If this is so, then any algorithm which uses the first value or the lowest > value, or "any SIMPLE strategy" as the basis for deciding whether other > records are tolerantly equal, runs the (theoretical) risk of excluding > values that are within the tolerance of some theoretical "correct" value. If that is the case, the right solution would indeed be to sort on normalized sequence values (as Oleg's approach) rather than implement "tolerant sort". -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
