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Re: Best search algorithm to find a condition within a range.

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Subject Re: Best search algorithm to find a condition within a range.
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Evertjan. wrote:

> The advice given was to add zero's in front of the "shortest" stringified 
> number.
> 
> There is no way to do that without first retrieving the "length" of both
> and assessing the difference to know how many zerows to add.
> 
> So the length difference so already there, and there is no need to add the 
> zero characters when this difference != 0, since that value already answers 
> the comparison. And there is no need to add them when they are equal too, 
> btw.

Why would someone try to do integer arithmetic on strings?  I would
suggest to use a large base, where each digit is an element of an array.
 IIRC Ben (Bacarisse) has already suggest this.

-- 
Christoph M. Becker

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Best search algorithm to find a condition within a range. jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-04-07 02:43 -0700
  Re: Best search algorithm to find a condition within a range. "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2015-04-07 13:07 +0200
    Re: Best search algorithm to find a condition within a range. jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-04-07 04:38 -0700
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      Re: Best search algorithm to find a condition within a range. "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2015-04-07 14:49 +0200
  Re: Best search algorithm to find a condition within a range. Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-04-07 13:27 +0100
    Re: Best search algorithm to find a condition within a range. jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-04-07 06:04 -0700
      Re: Best search algorithm to find a condition within a range. Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-04-07 14:23 +0100
        Re: Best search algorithm to find a condition within a range. jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-04-07 06:54 -0700
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            Re: Best search algorithm to find a condition within a range. jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-04-07 08:59 -0700
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                Re: Best search algorithm to find a condition within a range. Dr J R Stockton <reply1500@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2015-04-09 23:08 +0100
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                Re: Best search algorithm to find a condition within a range. Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-04-07 20:58 +0200
                Re: Best search algorithm to find a condition within a range. "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2015-04-07 22:19 +0200
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                Re: Best search algorithm to find a condition within a range. "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-04-09 14:55 +0200
                Re: Best search algorithm to find a condition within a range. "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2015-04-09 15:20 +0200
                Re: Best search algorithm to find a condition within a range. Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-04-09 14:49 +0100
                Re: Best search algorithm to find a condition within a range. Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-04-09 16:10 +0200
                Re: Best search algorithm to find a condition within a range. "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2015-04-09 16:17 +0200
                Re: Best search algorithm to find a condition within a range. jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-04-09 07:22 -0700
                Re: Best search algorithm to find a condition within a range. "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2015-04-09 16:44 +0200
                Re: Best search algorithm to find a condition within a range. jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-04-09 07:57 -0700
                Re: Best search algorithm to find a condition within a range. jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-04-09 08:05 -0700
                Re: Best search algorithm to find a condition within a range. Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-04-09 17:04 +0100
                Re: Best search algorithm to find a condition within a range. Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-04-09 16:14 +0200
                Re: Best search algorithm to find a condition within a range. "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2015-04-09 16:34 +0200
                Re: Best search algorithm to find a condition within a range. Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-04-09 17:39 +0200
                Re: Best search algorithm to find a condition within a range. "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2015-04-09 18:04 +0200
                Re: Best search algorithm to find a condition within a range. Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-04-09 18:26 +0200
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      Re: Best search algorithm to find a condition within a range. "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2015-04-07 15:28 +0200
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