From: Louis J Scoras Date: 2006-10-27T05:02:49+09:00 Subject: Re: Beginner would like help with oo-modelling On 10/26/06, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote: > > > > But since the pattern depends on the parameter, I am not sure if a > > reasonably short equation could be found. > > it's quite short: Aye, that would be the way to go. I can't think of any reason why you'd want to eat up all that memory holding all of the offsets when you can calculate them relatively easily. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_series -- Lou.