"Fuzzy" Counter?

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 2:32 AM, Rob Gaddi
<rgaddi at technologyhighland.invalid> wrote:
> You'll probably have to write that yourself.  While you're at it, think
> long and hard about that definition of fuzziness.  If you can make it
> closer to the concept of histogram "bins" you'll get much better
> performance.  If, for instance, you can live with 1.anything being one
> bin, and 2.anything being the next (even though this puts 1.999 and
> 2.000 into separate bins) then you can just floor() the number and use
> the result as the key.

Or even check three bins based on that - the floor(), floor()+1, and
floor()-1 bins. That way, you're not running into problems at any
boundaries, and you still limit the exponential growth of the
comparisons.

But it's still fundamentally problematic.

ChrisA