Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 2:23 AM, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
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And I don't like "linspace" either. Something more self
explanatory such as "subdivide" or "interpolate" might
be better.

"Grid" would be nice and short, but may suggest 2-dimentional result.
 Whatever word we choose, I think it should be a noun rather than a
verb.  ("Comb" (noun) brings up the right image, but is probably too
informal  and may be confused with a short for "combination.")

I came up with "spread".

Here's my second attempt, which offers both count/start/end and count/start/step APIs:

http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577881-equally-spaced-floats-part-2/




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Steven

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