Re: Counting number of numbers in a large list between two valus
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- Subject: [mg114526] Re: Counting number of numbers in a large list between two valus
- From: Leonid Shifrin <lshifr at gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 06:43:29 -0500 (EST)
Hi Lyle,
Sorry - I misunderstood the problem. I thought you meant the positional
arrangement of the numbers. Since you seem to be getting plenty of
good answers, I will not attempt to correct myself with more code.
Regards,
Leonid
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 5:57 AM, Lyle <lgordon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Listers,
>
> I have a large (5-20million) one dimensional list of real numbers and
> I want to count the number of entries in the list that lie between 2
> specific values (x1, x2). I need to run the function for a number of
> different ranges.
>
> ie. number of list entries (l), where x1 <= l <= x2
>
> I've tried:
>
> tallydata[{x1_, x2_}] := Count[data, x_ /; x1 <= x <= x2]
>
> that takes about 3-4 seconds
>
> and
>
> tallydata[{x1_, x2_}] := Length[Select[data, x1 <= # <= x2 &]]
>
> which takes a little bit longer.
>
> The best I've managed is (this last one might be off by 1 or 2 but
> this doesn't really matter to me):
>
> sorteddata = Sort[data];
> nf = Nearest[sorteddata];
> tallyrange[{x1_, x2_}] :=
> First[Position[sorteddata, First[nf[x2]]]] -
> First[Position[sorteddata, First[nf[x1]]]]
>
> which takes between 1 and 2 seconds but I was hoping there might be a
> faster way to do this?
>
> Any help would be great!
>
> Thanks,
> Lyle Gordon
>
> Northwestern University
>