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| From | Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.programming |
| Subject | Re: A little puzzle. |
| Date | 2022-11-22 12:53 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <87leo3kv55.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (permalink) |
| References | <875yf8nijb.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <tliab3$3pa84$6@dont-email.me> |
Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> writes:
> On 21/11/2022 8:45 pm, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> I wonder if there are any real posters here?
>
> Nobody here but us chickens.
>
>> Let's see...
>> I came across a trivial programming task that must have been solved a
>> thousand times by other programmers, but it had never crossed my path
>> until yesterday. I must be feeling my age because I made a real hash of
>> tackling it at first. Anyway, I thought it might be of interest.
>> Consider any ordered measure that "wraps round" -- bearings in degrees,
>> minutes in the hour, indeed hours in either the 12 or 24 hour clock.
>> The problem is to determine if a given value is in the sub-range
>> specified by a start and an en value.
>> I was specifically concerned with integer values where the sub-range
>> includes the start value but excludes the end value.
>> Though I am not sure this merits the term "puzzle", I suggest that
>> solutions be posted with some spoiler protection. Do all the news
>> readers used by programmers (or ex programmers) all respect the presence
>> of a form-feed character...
>
> Dunno. Let's find out:
>
> Ctrl-L coming up:
>
>
>
Didn't see a form feed there. Here's one (I hope):
> although of course in C the problem would be far better solved as:
>
> int inrange(int lo, int hi, int k)
> {
> return (lo <= k) && (k < hi);
> }
>
> or even as a macro.
>
> I must confess I'm not entirely certain I have correctly interpreted
> your puzzle, which I have taken to mean "is this a given value in the
> given range", but this seems just a bit too easy for you to make a
> hash of, but I'm sure I've made hashes of worse. I've missed
> something, haven't I?
The circular wrapping. On a clock, 55 is in the range of minutes that
starts at 45 and ends at 5.
--
Ben.
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Re: A little puzzle. David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2022-11-21 22:06 +0100
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