From: Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezra@...>
Date: 2005-07-16T02:51:06+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Sampling (#39)


On Jul 15, 2005, at 6:10 AM, James Edward Gray II wrote:
>>
>
> P.S.  Taunting each other with fast time readouts is not a  
> spoiler.  Feel free!  ;)
>
> James Edward Gray II
>
>
ezra:~/Sites ez$ time ./sample.rb 5_000_000 1_000_000_000 >  
big_sample.txt

real    0m43.838s
user    0m35.820s
sys     0m1.360s
ezra:~/Sites ez$ ls -l big_sample.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 ez  ez  49444445 Jul 15 10:46 big_sample.txt
ezra:~/Sites ez$ head big_sample.txt
168
285
566
604
912
1183
1335
1473
1728
1919
ezra:~/Sites ez$ tail big_sample.txt
999998155
999998313
999998484
999998680
999998825
999999151
999999330
999999465
999999621
999999877
ezra:~/Sites ez$

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