Hi all...

Using VB in a appplication that needs to solve a bit of a math/algorithm
problem, and thought the good people here would have interesting ideas on
how to solve it...

Without going into too much detail, basically the code must find/suggest the
best pairs of numbers from a single list, and be able to exclude "outliers".

Pairing would be the best pairings possible by closest value.

Example:

data:
25
22
31
24
25
22
28
18
23

I would want to be able to adjust the sensitivity of the code to start to
trim outliers from the data, like "18" would seem to be the biggest
troublemaker in creating similar pairs... resulting in a list like this:


31 28
25 25
24 23
22 22
excluded: 18


The largest delta is three in this case... but you can see how the
logic/sorting might become complex, especially when the list of data becomes
much larger.

Thoughts?

Thx,

SMS