Re: Fatal error!

From	Thomas Mlynarczyk <thomas@mlynarczyk-webdesign.de>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.php
Subject	Re: Fatal error!
Date	2013-03-24 14:34 +0100
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Jerry Stuckle schrieb:
>> $data = range( 1, 100000 );
>> shuffle( $data );
> This would note create an array of random numbers.  It will create a 
> randomized array of numbers - two entirely different things.
> In a random array, duplicates are expected to happen.  That's the nature 
> of random numbers.

This is, of course, true, but I still consider my suggestion to be 
sufficient for the OP's sorting exercise [1]. On the other hand: a few 
duplicates might be useful to prove that the sorting algorithm can deal 
with them.

Greetings,
Thomas

[1] The rand() function is -- like any deterministic algorithm -- not 
truly random either.

-- 
Ce n'est pas parce qu'ils sont nombreux à avoir tort qu'ils ont raison!
(Coluche)

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Fatal error! gb <no@yahoo.it> - 2013-03-24 11:43 +0100
  Re: Fatal error! Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-03-24 08:04 -0400
  Re: Fatal error! Thomas Mlynarczyk <thomas@mlynarczyk-webdesign.de> - 2013-03-24 14:00 +0100
    Re: Fatal error! Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-03-24 09:05 -0400
      Re: Fatal error! Thomas Mlynarczyk <thomas@mlynarczyk-webdesign.de> - 2013-03-24 14:34 +0100

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