From: Belorion Date: 2005-07-16T01:15:49+09:00 Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Sampling (#39) On 7/15/05, Wybo Dekker wrote: > $ time ruby -e '5_000_000.times do puts rand(1_000_000_000) end' >big_sample.txt > elap 16.612 > user 16.421 > syst 0.177 > CPU 99.91% > > $ wc big_sample.txt > 5000000 5000000 49446636 big_sample.txt > > or do I miss something?? The above example will result in duplicate members. Every number in the list must be unique. Matt