Dang I was just formulating that, but you would have to build a list of already assigned people and then pop them in the middle as logic dictates.
Bob On Mar 8, 2011, at 11:05 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > Would it work to assign "pseudo ages" to each of the people based on the > given relationships, starting with the first? In your example: > > Malte (1000) is older than Bjornke(500) > Mark (1500) is older than Malte > > Then you can sort by the age as others have suggested. Seems to work well on > this small sample size but I guess it could get pretty complicated to assign > the pseudo ages if there is a large number of people. > > Pete Haworth > > On Mar 8, 2011, at 10:49 AM, Malte Brill wrote: > >> Thanks for the head ups folks, >> >> Björnke and Mark: I do not have the exact ages to sort by. All I do have is >> relations: >> >> Malte is older than Björnke >> Mark is older than Malte >> >> And now I need to compute if it is valid to say: >> - Björnke is older than Mark (obviously not) >> - Björnke is the same age as Mark (obviously not) >> - Björnke is younger than Mark. (That´s the one) >> >> What comes easy to the human brain in fact appears to be a lot more >> difficult when having to be tackled computationaly. >> >> Chris: Yes, I want such a list in the end. But in order to finally get this >> I will need to tell the machine which relations are legal first (the user >> tells which relations there are) and ideally filter out the data for >> relations that make no sense. Now I wish it was easy to tell the machine to >> just use logic and make sense itself :D This comparison has to be done for >> thousands of entities (children in this case). >> >> Cheers, >> >> Malte >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
