On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 24/06/2010 4:39 PM, Peter Langfelder wrote: > >> AFAIK the optimal way of summing a large number of positive numbers is >> to always add the two smallest numbers > > Isn't that what I said?
I understood that you suggested to linearly sum the numbers from the smallest to the largest. That would take an initial sort and then a simple sum. My idea is to keep the order throughout. Apologies if I misunderstood. Peter ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
