Re: Selecting common records from two files.


Pete Dashwood wrote:
"James J. Gavan" <jgavandeletethis@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Kelly Bert Manning wrote:
"ashu" (ashutosh_priyadarshi@xxxxxxxxxxx) writes:

Didn't your instructor cover the Balance Line Algorithim?

http://www.cs.uni.edu/~east/teaching/034/fall03/class_activity/balance_line_algorithm.html

Sez to meself, "What's he talking about ?". Checked out your link. Just
great ! One of the most elementary and *very useful* concepts in
programming has a name coined for it :-)

When I learned it, it was called a "Three way split". I like pictures better
than code so I've posted one here:
http://www.enternet.co.nz/users/dashwood/3waysplit.doc


Very nice. Your diagram cut right through it! Perhaps if the
instructors went back to calling it a "three way split" the students
would catch on more.

-- Elliot

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