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> 4 page case statement when 3 lines of recursion would have done it I just so happen to be starting out. Do you mean generating cases like "prefix-[i+1]” ?
No, lookup the the "switch" statement, depending on what language you are learning it may not support it directly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switch_statement
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You can do that for wind, but what does it mean? An equally valid measure for wind would be to take the absolutes, and average their squares. That'll give you a measure of the average energy in the wind.
It means the average direction of the wind, which is an important factor in many places. Of course this might need to be combined with an average windspeed to get a better picture of what the wind in a certain location is really like.
My outsider's opinion is that I think that a lot of cited articles are not always thoroughly examined, or of they are examined they are used to confirm the biases of a particular researcher. I recently became interested in the idea of possible anesthetic neurotoxicity in infants and looked at a number of papers. The basic research seems solid, but the conclusions drawn are strangely inconsistent. Neonatal rat, mouse…
For my next New England Journal paper, I'm going to use a random number generator to simulate whether conditional, probabilistic health outcomes occurred or not. I'll cycle through this thousands of times to obtain stable estimates, and then call this the Monte Carbocation method.
No, it should be the "Las Vegas method"