> > If you have two floating point values representing seconds (and parts of) >> why can't you just compare the two floating point values? >> >> What part are you stuck with? Can you give us some code with a comment on >> which bit you can't do. >> > >> I don't have a problem with comparing floats, but I might need to find the > 10 closest times to the actual event time and 4 of those times could be less > than the actual event time and 6 could be higher. > > I don't mind rolling my own and am quite looking forward to it, but I don't > want to re-invent the proverbial wheel. >
This seems a fairly simple wheel to be worried about re-inventing though (or even to look forward to). OK, so you have an array of times. You sort through them based on: (predicted_time - actual_time).abs and pick the smallest 10 items. Cheers, Andy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
