in reply to Re^2: Points on a line and associated intervals
in thread Points on a line and associated intervals

That was clear. The code I posted does that by insertion sorting the new interval back into the sorted list of remaining intervals. Still, the result is the selection of the 10 highest quality points via a very slow algorithm. It will always favour quality over distance, and regularity of spacing is never considered.

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