> On 28 septembrie 2007 07:07 Behalf Of Chris Stebbing wrote: > Subject: Sorting 24 floats billions of times - or not > > Hi All, > > I have an application which has a two dimensional array of 24 rows > each containing 20 floating point values. I need to analyse every > single combination of every single set of 24 values. Essentially I > only need to obtain the top 5 values for each permutation, many of > which are going to be the same of course.
The answers lays in the nature of the "top values" function. If that function has no special properties one might use to shortcut the huge loop, then I doubt there's any computer out there that can do it within our collective life span, because you basically need to test all possible combinations. How do you define "top values"? -- Cosmin Prund _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
