test for isInRange?

[Gerrit Holl]

<quote name="Janko Hauser" date="951906040" email="jhauser at ifm.uni-kiel.de">
> As it seems, that at the moment all bot's are very creative, I dare to
> ask a question.
> 
> What is the known right(tm) algorithmic answer to the problem if a number
> or a range represented by two numbers(start,stop) is in another range?

>>> x=5
>>> 1<x<6
1
>>> 1<x<4
0

> Think of a database with geographic locations and you want to to ask
> this database (which need not to be a relational db) if there is data
> in a given range. (Forget for the moment problems with cyclic ranges)

>>> if x_low < x < x_high and y_low < y < y_high:
...     print "Huray!"

</quote>

regards,
Gerrit.

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