Stever, that is an interesting set of observations. I did not try just
the .#time by itself, but used it solely as the input as shown in my
example.
In your test set, I note that the time it took each iteration is
slightly different. The .sss increments are not a single value within
each series, but a number of thousandths of a second that is slightly
different. This must be something to do with varying CPU loading during
the tests.
The weird things we R:Basers get up to is an infinitely large set,
statistically speaking
Albert
Wills, Steve wrote:
Albert, your solution looks pretty good. However, when I "played" with
it, I found something interesting. When I am having problems with a
statement or trying to learn how something works, I often break apart
the complex portions into their "atomic units". While doing this with
your approach I observed something that, to me, is very subtle and very
discrete about SELECT-processing versus FUNCTION-processing.
