From: Stefan Kaes <skaes@...>
Date: 2005-09-13T18:46:46+09:00
Subject: Re: possible bug?

Stefan Kaes wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a piece of code which I think should be working, but it doesn't.
>
> def standard_dev(a, mean)
>   Math.sqrt((a.inject(0.0){|v,r| r += (v-mean)*(v-mean) })/a.length)
> end
>
> computes results that don't make sense and differ from the values 
> computed by this code:
>
> def standard_dev(a, mean)
>   r = 0.0
>   a.each{|v| r += (v-mean)*(v-mean) }
>   Math.sqrt(r/a.length)
> end
>
Oops. This should have been:

> I think the two should be *identical*. Am I missing something?
>