Standard Forth versus Python: a case study

[Gabriel Genellina]

At Thursday 12/10/2006 17:44, idknow at gmail.com wrote:

> > > > fun median {
> > > >  var x = 0.
> > > >   while( *p++) {
> > > >     if( (*p) > x) x = *p.
> > > >   }
> > > >   return x.
> > > > }
>
>clearly, i've forgotten the definition of the median of a list.
>to that i plead faulty memory.

That explains all. Finding the median in an efficient way (that is, 
without sorting the data first) isn't trivial, so your claim of "I 
can do that using only one temp variable" was a bit surprising...
BTW, the median is the value which sits just in the middle of the 
list when ordered: median(3,5,12,1,2)=median(1,2,3,5,12) = 3


-- 
Gabriel Genellina
Softlab SRL 


	
	
		
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