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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2a5cdfc27475c02f,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-31 06:43:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!dial-in-217-9-45-245.berlikomm.NET!not-for-mail From: Harald Schmidt Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: How to model unknown values in a vector? Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 15:43:17 +0200 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: dial-in-217-9-45-245.berlikomm.net (217.9.45.245) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1054388582 7579391 217.9.45.245 (16 [195781]) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.1.2418 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:38213 Date: 2003-05-31T15:43:17+02:00 List-Id: Hi, Does anyone know how to model values in a vector, which are unknown. I can't use the zero value because this is a valid value. Minus infinity could be an option, but I am searching for a better method to handle unknown values. Harald