Re: Fastest way to normalize doubles and convert to float?

From:
Seungbeom Kim <musiphil@bawi.org>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Thu, 6 Mar 2008 14:56:55 CST
Message-ID:
<fqpbou$3n3$1@news.Stanford.EDU>
k04jg02@gmail.com wrote:

I have a huge array of doubles. I want to normalize them to the range
-1 to 1 converting them to floats in the process. Is there a 'best' /
fastest way to do this? Does C++ provide a way out of the box?


Some of the previous answers don't normalize to [-1, +1] as specified.

class normalizer
{
     double min_, max_;
public:
     normalizer(double min, double max) : min_(min), max_(max) { }
     double operator()(double x) const {
         return (2 * x - max_ - min_) / (max_ - min_);
     }
};

// use case: std::transform(begin, end, out, normalizer(min, max))

#include <algorithm>
#include <iterator>
#include <ostream>
#include <iostream>

int main()
{
     double array[] = { +0.1139, +1.0668, +0.0593, -0.0956, -0.8323 };
     double* array_end = array + sizeof(array) / sizeof(*array);
     std::ostream_iterator<double> osi(std::cout, " ");

     std::copy(array, array_end, osi);
     std::cout << '\n';

     double* min = std::min_element(array, array_end);
     double* max = std::max_element(array, array_end);
     std::transform(array, array_end, array, normalizer(*min, *max));

     std::copy(array, array_end, osi);
     std::cout << '\n';
}

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