At 2008-12-12T19:20:52Z, John Machin <sjmac...@lexicon.net> writes: > (1) you meant "if balance > threshold:"
balance >= threshold. We both mistyped. :-) > (2) sequential search can be very fast if the sequence is in > descending order of probability of occurence ... you might like to > consider reversing the order Actually, I just wanted to point out a simplified version of the exact same algorithm. Given enough RAM and if the speed was indeed critical, you could turn that into a tuple of interest rates and jump straight to rate[balance] in O(1). -- Kirk Strauser The Day Companies -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list