From: jason r tibbetts <tibbettj@...>
Date: 2005-07-16T05:07:13+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Sampling (#39)

Wybo Dekker wrote:
> 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... 

 From the original posting:

> Your program should output exactly the requested number of members from the
> defined range to STDOUT, one number per line.  Each member must be unique and
> they should appear in sorted order.

The only thing that was left out of the original was the requirement 
that the values be random.