bins

bins, a FORTRAN77 code which sorts data into order, or lumps it into bins, or select an item of particular rank, or finds the unique elements in a list.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Languages:

bins is available in a C++ version and a FORTRAN77 version and a FORTRAN90 version.

Related Data and Programs:

bins_test

SUBPAK, a FORTRAN77 library which contains many routines for sorting and searching data.

Reference:

1. Jon Bentley, Bruce Weide, Andrew Yao,
   Optimal Expected Time Algorithms for Closest Point Problems,
   ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software,
   Volume 6, Number 4, December 1980, pages 563-580.
2. Thomas Cormen, Charles Leiserson, Ronald Rivest,
   Introduction to Algorithms,
   MIT Press, 2001,
   ISBN: 0262032937,
   LC: QA76.C662.
3. Barry Joe,
   GEOMPACK - a software package for the generation of meshes using geometric algorithms,
   Advances in Engineering Software,
   Volume 13, pages 325-331, 1991.
4. Albert Nijenhuis, Herbert Wilf,
   Combinatorial Algorithms for Computers and Calculators,
   Second Edition,
   Academic Press, 1978,
   ISBN: 0-12-519260-6,
   LC: QA164.N54.

Source Code:

• bins.f, the source code.
• bins.sh, commands to compile the source code.