Re: Random number generator without duplicates?
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:
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Sorry, but that's not true. You confuse the original sample (which is not
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random but stochastic) and the random selection from this sample. Compare
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choosing numbered pieces of papers from a hat. The last number will have a
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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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