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What's the most efficient way to test if two ranges overlap?
What's the most efficient way to test if two ranges overlap? Given two inclusive ranges [x1:x2] and [y1:y2], where `x1 ≤ x2` and `y1 ≤ y2`, what is the most efficient way to test whether there is any ...
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How to loop backwards in python?
How to loop backwards in python? I'm talking about doing something like: I can think of some ways to do so in python (creating a list of `range(1,n+1)` and reverse it, using `while` and `--i`, ...) bu...
Making a list of evenly spaced numbers in a certain range in python
Making a list of evenly spaced numbers in a certain range in python What is a pythonic way of making list of arbitrary length containing evenly spaced numbers (not just whole integers) between given b...
NameError: global name 'xrange' is not defined in Python 3
NameError: global name 'xrange' is not defined in Python 3 I am getting an error when running a python program: ``` Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Wing IDE 101 4.1\sr...
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- 28 Jun at 21:13
How to scale down a range of numbers with a known min and max value
How to scale down a range of numbers with a known min and max value So I am trying to figure out how to take a range of numbers and scale the values down to fit a range. The reason for wanting to do t...
Python range() and zip() object type
Python range() and zip() object type I understand how functions like `range()` and `zip()` can be used in a for loop. However I expected `range()` to output a list - much like `seq` in the unix shell....
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Iterate a certain number of times without storing the iteration number anywhere
Iterate a certain number of times without storing the iteration number anywhere I was wondering if it is possible to perform a certain number of operations without storing the loop iteration number an...
Generate random numbers using C++11 random library
Generate random numbers using C++11 random library As the title suggests, I am trying to figure out a way of generating random numbers using the new C++11 `` library. I have tried it with this code: T...
Group by range using linq
Group by range using linq how can we use groupped ranges for equal or greater than ? ``` var data = new[] { new { Id = 0, Price = 2 }, new { Id = 1, Price = 10 }, new { Id = 2, Price = 30 }, ...
Is it more efficient to perform a range check by casting to uint instead of checking for negative values?
Is it more efficient to perform a range check by casting to uint instead of checking for negative values? I stumbled upon this piece of code in .NET's [List source code](http://referencesource.microso...
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- 30 Mar at 10:16
Get an enumerable range for a given min and max with a given number of steps
Get an enumerable range for a given min and max with a given number of steps I am familiar with the [Enumerable.Range](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.linq.enumerable.range%28v=vs.100%2...
Process a list with a loop, taking 100 elements each time and automatically less than 100 at the end of the list
Process a list with a loop, taking 100 elements each time and automatically less than 100 at the end of the list Is there a way to use a loop that takes the first 100 items in a big list, does somethi...
Creating an Array from a Range in VBA
Creating an Array from a Range in VBA I'm having a seemingly basic problem but can't find any resources addressing it. Simply put, I just want to load the contents of a Range of cells (all one column)...
How to select values within a provided index range from a List using LINQ
How to select values within a provided index range from a List using LINQ I am a LINQ newbie trying to use it to acheive the following: I have a list of ints:- Now, I want to compare the sum of the fi...
finding multiples of a number in Python
finding multiples of a number in Python I'm trying to write a code that lets me find the first few multiples of a number. This is one of my attempts: I figured out that, by putting `for m in (n, m):`,...
How does String substring work in Swift
How does String substring work in Swift I've been updating some of my old code and answers with Swift 3 but when I got to Swift Strings and Indexing with substrings things got confusing. Specifically ...
Subscript out of range error in this Excel VBA script
Subscript out of range error in this Excel VBA script I would like to copy data from a CSV file into an Excel worksheet. There are 11 .csv files. So far I have this (it is a modified version from a pr...
Is there a need for range(len(a))?
Is there a need for range(len(a))? One frequently finds expressions of this type in python questions on SO. Either for just accessing all items of the iterable Which is just a clumbersome way of writi...
How to set the subplot axis range
How to set the subplot axis range How can I set the y axis range of the second subplot to e.g. [0,1000] ? The FFT plot of my data (a column in a text file) results in a (inf.?) spike so that the actua...
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- 15 Sep at 04:44
What's a good, generic algorithm for collapsing a set of potentially-overlapping ranges?
What's a good, generic algorithm for collapsing a set of potentially-overlapping ranges? I have a method that gets a number of objects of this class In my case `T` is `DateTime`, but lets use `int` fo...
Why is Enumerable.Range faster than a direct yield loop?
Why is Enumerable.Range faster than a direct yield loop? The code below is checking performance of three different ways to do same solution. ``` public static void Main(string[] args) { // for l...
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How to select a range of values in a pandas dataframe column?
How to select a range of values in a pandas dataframe column? ``` import pandas as pd import numpy as np data = 'filename.csv' df = pd.DataFrame(data) df one two three four five a 0.469112 -...
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- 10 Aug at 22:28
Random number in range with equal probability
Random number in range with equal probability This might be more Math related than C#, but I need a C# solution so I'm putting it here. My question is about the probability of random number generators...
How does one make random number between range for arc4random_uniform()?
How does one make random number between range for arc4random_uniform()? so my goal in this codebit is to randomly roll two dice and as we all know your regular die only has 6 sides so I imported Found...
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