From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-03-29T20:13:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Weighted random selection -- how would you do this?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Tomson" <ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 2:04 AM
Subject: Re: Weighted random selection -- how would you do this?


> >This should work, I think.
> >
> 
> Hmmm.... Wouldn't this be biased by order?

Elaborate, Phil... do you mean that the actual
distribution would be wrong? Or just that there
would be a pattern in the sequence of choices?

Hal