Hi, friends. I wanna ask if there is a function which is able to take a list as argument and then return its top-k maximums?

D'Arcy J.M. Cain darcy at druid.net
Thu Apr 22 10:17:47 EDT 2010


On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:04:01 +0100
Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
> > So please tell me if there is one or not. I really need this soon.
> > Appreciate a lot.
> 
> Assuming top-k doesn't mean something obscurely statistical:

You really shouldn't do people's homework for them.  It doesn't do
them any favours.

To the OP:  Try to figure out how to do it without reversing the list.
It's simple.

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