Archive for April 2009

Keeping a running average

I needed to average a lot of large values and was afraid that the normal approach of a+b+c..etc/N would overflow or something. So here’s a C++ class to keep a running average: class InfiniteRunningAverage { double average; double valueCount; public: InfiniteRunningAverage() { average = 0.0; valueCount = 1; } void Add(double value) { average = [...]