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Even distribution of percentages of a list to use each uniquely

veryangryman · 2014-01-08 13:16:00

Issue im having to get coverage to do unique actions to sublists of a list We use an offset so that the start point is unique in each sublist. Example data as follows. Doing action A to 30% of nodes with offset 0 Doing action B to 30% of nodes with offset 1 Doing action C to 30% of nodes with offset 2 Doing action D D to…

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08-01-2014 2:16pm

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veryangryman

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Issue im having to get coverage to do unique actions to sublists of a list

We use an offset so that the start point is unique in each sublist. Example data as follows.

Doing action A to 30% of nodes with offset 0
Doing action B to 30% of nodes with offset 1
Doing action C to 30% of nodes with offset 2
Doing action D D to 10% of nodes with offset 3

We have a list of 135 nodes.

...1% of this list is 1.35 nodes
...30% of this list is 40.5 nodes (we round up to 41)
...10% of this list is 13.5 nodes (we round up to 14)

The gap between nodes is calculated as 100 / percentage so..

30% means a gap of 3 between each node in list
10% means a gap of 14 between each node in list

action A gives the node list as
node1, node4, node7 etc
action B gives the node list as
node2, node5, node8 etc
action C gives the node list as
node3, node6, node9 etc
action D gives the node list as
node4, node18, node32 etc

We would then be using the same nodes in more than 1 action.

Maybe theres a better way to do this... ?

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