Random but unique

Dar Scott dsc at swcp.com
Sun Jan 12 13:43:01 EST 2003


On Saturday, January 11, 2003, at 02:42 PM, Rob Cozens wrote:

> Oops!  I spoke too soon.  Your idea has a fatal flaw: while it returns 
> the correct number of lines, they won't be in random order.

However, Jim's idea will work in those cases in which the list is 
viewed as a set and the order does not matter.

If order does matter then the scrambling idea by he who signs "miscdas" 
can be applied to the result.

Dar Scott




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