Re: Suggestion: math.between()

[Stefan <stefan@...>]

Hear, hear!

-- Average function using arithmetic mean
-- (using proposed math.sum function)
function math.avg(...)
    return math.sum(...) / select("#",...)
end

On a side note, I find it vaguely disappointing how many (too quick) 
responses to the original post were utterly wrong given the sample 
results. I know (hope?) we all could do better given some real effort. 
This seems to be a bit of a trend lately - of shooting from the hip with 
solution/sample code. Perhaps we should be less quick to respond and 
more careful with such responses?

On 6/21/2010 5:15 PM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> > function math.mean(...)
> >    local argc=select("#",...)
> >    local total=0
> >    for i=1,argc do
> >      total=total+(select(i,...))
> >    end
> >    return total/argc
> > end
>
> Now, a case for math.sum could be made in order to avoid select, just as
> there is math.min and math.max.