Thank you to everyone

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I will have to experiment a bit, but you folks gave me some useful
suggestions.

Thanks so much.

Michael
"Michael Hesse" <mhesse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have an array, where each element has two items. The second item is a
float that goes up in value.

1 0.005
2 0.145
4 0.853
5 1.431
6 1.900
9 2.454
11 3.000

I then pick a random number between 1 and 3. I want to find the element
that is >= the random number.

I can do a binary search, but I was wondering if there is a faster way to
do this.Some of these arrays have a lot of elements and I do this a lot.

Thanks for any help.

Michael





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