From: jason r tibbetts <tibbettj@...>
Date: 2005-07-16T01:34:22+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Sampling (#39)

Belorion wrote:
> On 7/15/05, Wybo Dekker <wybo@servalys.nl> 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.

And sorted.