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Refs #5021: a test fails on Ubuntu, sometimes!
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disabling it. Also wiki docs
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Janik Zikovsky committed Mar 23, 2012
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Where <math>\theta</math> is ''half'' of the neutron scattering angle (conventionally called <math>2\theta</math>).
<math>\lambda</math> is the neutron wavelength in ''Angstroms''.
==== OneEventPerBin option ====
If you specify ''OneEventPerBin'', then the '''histogram''' representation of the input workspace is used,
with one MDEvent generated for each bin of the workspace, '''including zeros'''.
This can be useful in cases where the experimental coverage needs to be tracked. With one MDEvent for each
bin, you can count which regions in Q-space have been measured. The [[SliceViewer]] has an option
to view normalized by number of events. This means that, for example, areas with overlap from two runs
will appear scaled down.
A significant drawback to this is that the output MDEventWorkspace will be ''significantly'' larger than the
events alone would be. It currently must be created in physical memory (it cannot yet be cached to disk).
One way to limit the memory used is to limit the OutputExtents to a smaller region and only convert
part of the space.
Also, the [[FindPeaksMD]] algorithm may not work optimally because it depends partly on higher density of
events causing more finely split boxes.
If your input is a [[Workspace2D]] and you do NOT check ''OneEventPerBin'', then the workspace is converted
to an [[EventWorkspace]] but with no events for empty bins.
*WIKI*/

#include "MantidAPI/IMDEventWorkspace.h"
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do_test_MINITOPAZ(TOF, 2);
}

void test_MINITOPAZ_OneEventPerBin()
/// FIXME: this fails on Ubuntu, sometimes?
void xtest_MINITOPAZ_OneEventPerBin()
{
do_test_MINITOPAZ(TOF, 1, true);
}
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