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Re: How many dimensions are needed?

> We are considering having an arbitrary number of dimensions in the general
> case, but we will probably need to have rank-specific implementations for
> performance, and the question is how high is the rank in practice?

The limit in IDL (my preferred analysis package) is 8 and recently I found a
good reason to construct such an array. But this is rare and otherwise I
don't think I've ever gone past 4 or maybe 5.

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Mark Hadfield
m.hadfield@xxxxxxxxxxx  http://katipo.niwa.cri.nz/~hadfield
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research


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