From: Wybo Dekker <wybo@...>
Date: 2005-07-16T04:56:21+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Sampling (#39)

On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, jason r tibbetts wrote:

> 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.

I'll just wait until the last and final specification comes out... 

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Wybo