From: Meino Christian Cramer <Meino.Cramer@...>
Date: 2006-03-31T05:57:15+09:00
Subject: Re:

From: James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net>
Subject: Re:
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 05:39:15 +0900

Hi James,

 again the ruby-effect: The way to code things in ruby is just too 
 straight forward and (only meant positively) simple.

 Again, I was thinking way too complex.....with no result at all.

 Thanks a lot! :)

 Have a nice time!
 mcc

 
 

 

> On Mar 30, 2006, at 2:33 PM, Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
> 
> > Hi;
> >
> >  I am looking for an algorithm, which spread all 26 letters of the
> >  alphabet over an array of 26 places randomly. All letters should be
> >  statistically equally handled.
> 
> Well, this is only as good as the random number generator, but it  
> sure is easy:
> 
>  >> ("a".."z").sort_by { rand }
> => ["s", "m", "q", "j", "f", "r", "z", "e", "l", "k", "y", "v", "g",  
> "d", "x", "p", "w", "a", "b", "c", "i", "t", "h", "o", "u", "n"]
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> James Edward Gray II
>