On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Samuel Tardieu <s...@rfc1149.net> wrote: > > > > 2013/4/14 Boyko Bantchev <boyk...@gmail.com> >> >> On 14 April 2013 15:03, Samuel Tardieu <s...@rfc1149.net> wrote: >> > If you start with a sequence of length 6, how do you split it into 4 >> > slices? >> > 1 1 1 3? 2 2 2 0? 3 2 1 0? >> >> I would think of 2 2 1 1, which is monotonically non-increasing and >> has minimal variation. > > > My point was that there isn't a one-suits-them-all solution for grouping an > arbitrary sized sequence into a fixed number of slices.
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