From: Jim Menard <jimm@...>
Date: 2005-07-16T05:58:55+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Sampling (#39)

I've managed to shave off one minute. Still nowhere near the 43 seconds posted 
  by Ezra.

tmp> time ruby sampling.rb 5_000_000 1_000_000_000 >big_sample.txt

real    1m46.449s
user    0m0.010s
sys     0m0.030s

Jim
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