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Subject: Re: crafty fail low question: was Re: crafty fail high problem

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 14:33:47 06/04/01

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On June 04, 2001 at 17:00:10, J. Wesley Cleveland wrote:

>This leads to a crafty question. In search.c, if all the values are < alpha (a
>fail low), the value returned is alpha and not MAX(values). Why is this ?

This is fail hard vs. fail low.

Look in the history in main.c to see why. It was tried and found
slower.

--
GCP



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