From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-03-30T05:30:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Weighted random selection -- how would you do this?

On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 04:07:22 +0900, Phil Tomson wrote:
> I tried running it a few times and well it seems to work.
> 
> I was just thinking that the order of the elements in the list
> could influence which is picked (for example if elements with high
> weights appeared earlier or later in the list), but it doesn't
> seem to be the case. Certainly a lot more compact and faster than
> my RouletteWheel example.

Couldn't order affect the results if more than one item share the
same weight?

-austin
-- Austin Ziegler, austin@halostatue.ca on 2003.03.29 at 15:29:10