From: Yohanes Santoso <ysantoso-rubytalk@...>
Date: 2005-07-19T05:26:24+09:00
Subject: Re: [SOLUTION] [QUIZ] Sampling (#39)

hp gobelli <gobelli@hpg.it> writes:

> i = -1
> range = min_val = 0
> sub_limit = limit / members
> steps = (limit / sub_limit).ceil.to_i
> (0...steps).each do |step|
>   min_val = (sub_limit * step).floor
>   range = sub_limit
>   if i >= min_val
>     min_val = i + 1
>     range = sub_limit * step - i
>   end
>   i = (rand(1000.0 * range) / 1000.0 + min_val).floor
>   puts i
> end

> Regards,
> Paolo.

seems similar to: 

from, to, segment_amt = 0, ARGV[1].to_i, ARGV[0].to_i
segment_size = (to - from) / segment_amt
segment_amt.times {
  next_random = from + rand(segment_size)
  from += segment_size
  puts next_random
}

but the people in the mailing list has 'condemned' algorithm producing
non-uniformly distributed random numbers :)

YS.