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Created November 27, 2009 11:45
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Finding the closest match from an array.rb
search = 80
hash = {1 => 83, 2 => 174, 3 => 276, 4 => 388, 5 => 512}
hash.values.min do |a,b|
(a - search).abs <=> (b - search).abs
end
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