List Commands Library for 50g

[pier4r]

No I'm not testing lshuf (but yeah I have it in the todos) .

Years ago I was contesting that a sample size of 3000 individuals could predict the voting results of way larger populations (tens of millions of individuals ). At that time I had less experience with statistics. Nevertheless I realized that I never tested the theory with a simulation (that normally helps consolidating the theory learned ).

So the idea is that I create a database of elements that reflects some choices and then I pick from it, to see if the sample reflects the real distribution.

Now I guess what affects the result is : how the population is distributed . In the code above the groups of elements that hold a certain choice are all packed together instead of being mixed .

I would like to test when the group are packed together , when the groups are completely mixed (the population is shuffled ) , when the groups are partially mixed (like people in Texas lean more for the Republicans rather than for the Democrats).

The main problem , though, is that to have a population of millions of entries I guess I have to do too much work on the 50g (I need to split the list on the sd).

I am not sure whether the HP prime can handle this as well even if on Android . I may need to use once again SQLite and bash / awk.

Anyway I was amazed that your library simplified my work a lot. And this is what I said before. The utility of a command , even the one that can be replicated with 3 userrpl commands , is equal to how much time is saved in the programming phase . After that the speed is important (due to the need of running the program and waiting for the result) and only as third concern is the size of the program.

Eyeballing the value of a command I would say:
The size of a command is 1 part of its value.
The speed of a command is 10 parts of its value (or even more, it depends how much times is used)
The usefulness of a command in simplifying coding work is 20 parts of its value (or even more if the program would be very complex otherwise).

So of course a library that packs more (useful and fast) commands, has more chances to have an higher total value for the user.