From: Robert <bob.news@...>
Date: 2003-03-29T23:46:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Weighted random selection -- how would you do this?


"Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:049601c2f5e5$d01a5de0$0300a8c0@austin.rr.com...
> Is there a consequence to the fact that you are
> iterating through a list in order? Might the
> results be "clustered" in some way?

Not if the rand function distributes numbers equally over the interval
(which it should).  What matters is the probability (or weight) of a choice.

    robert