in reply to Re^3: Creating a sub-list constrained by an average while maintaining maximum number of original elements
in thread Creating a sub-list constrained by an average while maintaining maximum number of original elements
No, I was aware of the problem. Your attempt at bringing the size down to Earth was not bad. A nice one I read once was in a book A. C. Clarke wrote about his experience working on 2001 with Kubrick, "Lost Worlds of 2001". Bringing large numbers/sizes to human-scale is not easy. Like how many ipv6 addresses there are....
My initial brute-force attempts caused the laptop to overheat and go into sleep. (^:
There's some middle-ground tuning as others have pointed out but it can wait for now.