From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2008-07-04T01:09:31+09:00
Subject: Re: pseudo-randomize an array in a consistent order

On Jul 3, 2008, at 11:08 AM, James Gray wrote:

> On Jul 3, 2008, at 11:04 AM, Robert Dober wrote:
>
>> a.sort{ rand }
>
> Don't do that:
>
> >> a = (1..5).to_a
> => [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
> >> a.sort { rand }
> => [5, 3, 1, 4, 2]
> >> a.sort { rand }
> => [5, 3, 1, 4, 2]
> >> a.sort { rand }
> => [5, 3, 1, 4, 2]

Oh, you meant to show this behavior.  My bad.

James Edward Gray II