Problem 42688. Determine the full width at half max

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Alfonso Nieto-Castanon on 23 Nov 2015

@Carl: the solutions already work this way, in this example the distance between "the points half-way between y(1) and y(2), and between y(5) and y(6)" is 5.5-1.5 (i.e. four, not five)

Carl Witthoft on 24 Nov 2015

Ahh, yes. Sorry, my bad

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Carl Witthoft on 24 Nov 2015

This fails, I believe, for asymmetric peaks. Try y = [0:4 , 3:-1:1,1,1,1,1,1]

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Jan Orwat on 21 Nov 2015

Hey Albert, there is abs() missing in the test suite.

Alberto Comin on 22 Nov 2015

Thanks, Jan. I just fixed it.

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