greets all. i have a (possibly) simple question...

how do i determine the largest number that has occured in a stream of numbers? i want to measure numbers in a fluctuating stream of numbers, but i want the highest number that has occured within a given time frame, to be shown or saved. i would be very surprised if there isnt a super simple way to do this that illudes me.

thanks in advance!

Onyx

hey, surprise surprise. Actually there is...
Give this a try..

In
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[max] X [f ]
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Out

You just have to go through all the numbers in that stream..
It can be resetted (..with a clocksignal..) by setting [max]s right inlet to the smalles number you expect to occur ( eg. to "0", or something negative..)

thank you! this should work perfectly.

the goal is to derive relative distance, per axis, from an accelerometer and use the resultant position as a gestural parameter location. should allow for an more dynamic gesture "cloud". this was the last piece! yaaay!

cheers!

onyx

Is it gauche for me to reply to this ancient post? At least that rhymes (sort of)!

I want to do nearly the same thing, but I don't like the inelegance of resetting the [max] with a clock. I would like to be able to see the highest of, say, the previous 100 numbers... and so it would continuously change, rather than at clock-based jumps.

I'm using something similar (actually, with [min]) to easily monitor some number streams with a VU. The basic output works fine, but I'm trying to use the peak-level-input to hover around the low end. When I reset [min] with a clock, it jumps up higher than I'd like.

[average] is cool, in the way that it keeps track of a stream of numbers... that's the sorta thing I'm after. Anyone have any ideas?

(see, if my number-stream glided up from, say, (0 - 100) to (50 - 1000), I'd like to see the Peak-Level drift up from 0 to 50. With a clock-based reset, it might jump to 75 while the stream is still in the 0 - 100 range.)