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Re: Random number generator without duplicates?
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Re: Random number generator without duplicates?


  • Subject: Re: Random number generator without duplicates?
  • From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 18:45:27 -0700

On 4/17/01 4:38 PM, M.S.R.F. Schonewille <email@hidden> wrote:

>Sorry, but that's not true. You confuse the original sample (which is not
>random but stochastic) and the random selection from this sample. Compare
>choosing numbered pieces of papers from a hat. The last number will have a
>probability P=1 of being chosen, the sequence still being perfectly random.

It all depends on what you're trying to create. N random numbers, or a
random sequence of N specific numbers.

--Michelle

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