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March 30, 2020 03:59
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This function (logmidpoints) will generate a list of midpoints in a log scale.
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/* vim: expandtab shiftwidth=4 tabstop=4 | |
*/ | |
/* | |
* Given a min value and max value and a number of steps return an array of that many | |
* points from min value to max value. min value _must_ be > 0.. Likely you want | |
* to use 1 as min value. (the log of 0 is -Infinity, so you can't use 0...) | |
*/ | |
function logmidpoints(min, max, steps) { | |
var points = []; | |
var logmax = Math.log(max); | |
var logmin = Math.log(min); | |
for (var v = logmin; v <= logmax; v += (logmax-logmin) / steps) { | |
points.push(Math.exp(v)); | |
} | |
return points; | |
} | |
console.log(logmidpoints(0.001, 10000, 7)) | |
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