From: Daniel Sheppard <daniels@...>
Date: 2006-06-05T15:40:17+09:00
Subject: Re: mode


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elliot Temple [mailto:curi@curi.us] 
> 
> I bet there's a more elegant way to write this. Anyone want 
> to show me?
> 
> def mode(li)
...
> end

It would probably help if you said what you were trying to achieve
rather than asking people to try and interpret code that you admit isn't
elegant.

class Array
  def mode
    count = Hash.new(0)
    each {|x| count[x] += 1 }
    count.sort_by{|k,v|v}.last[0]
  end
end