Re: In which interval?
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- Subject: [mg13317] Re: In which interval?
- From: Daniel Lichtblau <danl>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 02:49:32 -0400
- Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
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Pal Lillevold wrote: > > I need to resolve the following problem: > > Given N distinct real Intervals (x(i),x(i+1)); i=1,,,,N and a real > number R - in which interval is R located. In other words to identify > the unique value of i such that x(i)<=R<x(i+1). This is easy to do by > straight forward checking which value of the N i's which match the > inequalities. But this is very time-consuming when the number N is > large. Has anyone been confronted with this problem and resolved it > efficiently? I would highly appreciate any assistance. > > Thank you in advance and best regards. > > Pal Lillevold If you plan to do this many times with different values for R, it is best to presort the intervals (which may be slow for large N) and then do a binary search for each specific R. Daniel Lichtblau Wolfram Research