From: "Firestone, Mark - Technical Support" <mark.firestone@...>
Date: 2002-09-25T00:14:14+09:00
Subject: RE: Yet Another "Thickie" question / Random Range

I have to get my head around having "lots of memory" and not being limited
to 64k (readum... k) of data, like I used to be.

Anyone got a good algorythm laying around for the equivalent of random() in
python...

as in Random(x..y) to get a random number in the range x..y

Thanks,

Mark


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-----Original Message-----
From: Hal E. Fulton [mailto:hal9000@hypermetrics.com]
Sent: 23 September 2002 12:58
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Subject: Re: Yet Another "Thickie" question from Mark


As for reading it "as needed": That made
sense 20 years ago. But it's only 107K.
That's what, 1/5000th of your PC's RAM?
I'd say: Put it in an array and forget it.

Hal


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