"Fuzzy" Counter?

[Miki Tebeka]

Greetings,

On Wednesday, September 24, 2014 5:57:15 PM UTC+3, Ian wrote:
> Then your result depends on the order of your input, which is usually
> not a good thing.
As stated in previous reply - I'm OK with that.

> Why would you need to determine the *number* of bins in advance? You
> just need to determine where they start and stop. If for example your
> epsilon is 0.5, you could determine the bins to be at [-0.5, 0.5);
> [0.5, 1.5); [1.5, 2.5); ad infinitum. Then for each actual value you
> encounter, you could calculate the appropriate bin, creating it first
> if it doesn't already exist.
I see what you mean. I thought you mean histogram like bins where you usually state the number of bins in advance.