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A math/algorithm puzzle!
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 |
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