Yes, it does. Thank you very much.
Jiri 2012/11/28 Jiri Svoboda <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > > in a weighted sequence each element is assigned a positive integer weight > (1,2,3,...). Adding an element of weight n has an effect similar to adding > the same element n-times. For example, consider a sequence s=[a/3,b/2,c/1] > (first element is a with weight 3, second element is b with weight 2, third > element is c with weight 1]. Indexing the sequnece gives the results s[0]=a, > s[1]=a, s[2]=a, s[3]=b, s[4]=b, s[5]=c. > > > For example in a text editor if you stored the text as a list of lines, you > could add each line as an element to a sequence giving it the weight equal > to the number of bytes in that line. Then, s[i] would give you the line > which has the i-th byte in the file (and it would also give you the > 'remainder'/offset into that line. > > > Does that make more sense? > > > Cheers > > -Jiri > > > > ---------- Původní zpráva ---------- > Od: Jakub Jermar <[email protected]> > Datum: 19. 11. 2012 > Předmět: Re: [HelenOS-devel] Index sequence ADT enhancement > > > Hi Jiri, > > On 16.11.2012 16:30, Jiří Královec wrote: >> I would like to contribute to HelenOS by implementing an enhancement >> proposed in the ticket #438 named "Indexed sequence ADT" >> in the HelenOS's Trac (http://trac.helenos.org/ticket/438). >> >> The problem is that I don't understand what exactly is meant by >> the term "Weighted indexed sequence" even though the ticket's >> description try's to explain it. >> I understand what the "Indexed sequence" means, but I'm not >> sure what exactly "Weighted" adds to it. > > Thanks for your interest in HelenOS. > > If there are some doubts in relation to this ticket, it would be best to > get the answer from its author - JiriS. > > I have no idea what weighted means in this context. It would usually > mean the the individual elements have different weights (i.e. contribute > by different weight to a sum or a product), but not sure what it can > mean in this context. Could it be that an element with a greater weight > gets some indexing advantage, such as it will be found faster in the > index? JiriS? > > Jakub > > > _______________________________________________ > HelenOS-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.modry.cz/cgi-bin/listinfo/helenos-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > HelenOS-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.modry.cz/cgi-bin/listinfo/helenos-devel > _______________________________________________ HelenOS-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.modry.cz/cgi-bin/listinfo/helenos-devel
