2011/9/26 Carnë Draug <carandraug+...@gmail.com>:
> On 24 September 2011 23:33, JuanPi <ajua...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> >From a discussion in the IRC channel concerning this post
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/242711/algorithm-for-index-numbers-of-triangular-matrix-coefficients/3148414#3148414
>>
>> JordiGH improved the algorithm and include it in sprandsym, though he
>> mentioned that there may be problem with rounding real numbers.
>> Therefore user deeego proposed the use of lookup. JorgdiGH mentioned
>> that the two version had similar profiling times and that deego's
>> suggestion was more robuts cause it doen't suffer form rounding
>> problems. I wrote the function and I post it here
>>
>> function [r c] = ind2sub_triu (N, idx)
>>  endofrow = (1:N) .* (N - (0:(N - 1)) / 2);
>>  r = lookup(endofrow, idx-1)+1;
>>
>>  c = N - endofrow(r) + idx;
>> end
>>
>> %!test
>> %! A = [1 2 3 4; 0 5 6 7; 0 0 8 9; 0 0 0 10];
>> %! [r c] = ind2sub_triu (rows(A),1:10);
>> %! A_shouldbe = accumarray([r; c]',1:10);
>> %! assert (A,A_shouldbe)
>>
>> %! assert(A,)
>>
>> Why to add this function? Among other things, the function offers an
>> alternative to the duplicate_matrix function when passing from
>> vech(A.') to A. It is also useful when a matrix of differences of many
>> points is stored and queried.
>> That is
>> px = rand(3,1);
>> py = rand(3,1);
>> Rx = vech(bsxfun(@minus,px,px'));
>> Ry = vech(bsxfun(@minus,py,py'));
>> D = sqrt(Rx .^2 + Ry.^2);
>>
>> Which points are at least at distance d=0.2?
>> d=0.2;
>> idx = find(D>=d)';
>> [p1 p2] = sub2ind_triu(size(p,1),idx)
>>
>> Then p1 and p2 contain the label of the points that follows the criteria.
>>
>> --
>> JuanPi Carbajal
>
> Hi
>
> where do you propose to have this functions? In the general package?
>
> Carnë
>

Sure, why not. Lets see if any dev has a better idea.

If not, then I can upload a properly formatted version to the feature tracker.

-- 
JuanPi Carbajal
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