From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,88ed72d98e6b3457 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-08 13:49:03 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!wn11feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi_feed4!attbi.com!rwcrnsc53.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F847824.2000404@comcast.net> From: "Robert I. Eachus" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Standard Library Interest? References: <3F803278.1020507@noplace.com> <3F804A1E.7050208@comcast.net> <3F80637D.8060307@noplace.com> <3F821DB6.8090608@comcast.net> <3F82B61A.8030806@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.34.139.183 X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-Trace: rwcrnsc53 1065646141 24.34.139.183 (Wed, 08 Oct 2003 20:49:01 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 20:49:01 GMT Organization: Comcast Online Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 20:49:01 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:495 Date: 2003-10-08T20:49:01+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > If you recall, we had some generic packages that did mean, variance, > std-dev, skew, curtosis, etc., on arrays of numbers. There were a set of > them to do stats on different numeric types. I don't think I've got the > original code, but I have a variant of the code that I built in a > library of my own. (I think I gave you a copy of that library to look at) > > It was a while ago - 1997? - and we had been hoping to get some basic > stats into what was at the time being called the "Ada Standard Component > Library". We had traded this code back & forth quite a bit. Maybe you > have a copy of the original effort? I'll look. It may be on a CD I have of stuff from spectre. Or it may be on a tape I have from my PC at work, that would be a little harder to read. (I have a tape drive on my current PC, but they are not compatible.) -- Robert I. Eachus "Quality is the Buddha. Quality is scientific reality. Quality is the goal of Art. It remains to work these concepts into a practical, down-to-earth context, and for this there is nothing more practical or down-to-earth than what I have been talking about all along...the repair of an old motorcycle." -- from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig