il Mon, 12 Jul 2004 02:59:35 +0200, Florian Gross <flgr / ccan.de> ha scritto:: >(quoting >>> Flroain Gross (actually written with a different character than ss): > >It's actually "Florian Gro?", but I've seen the last character come out >as an y with two dots above it which is why I usually use "Gross" where >I can't be sure about it coming out right. ;) well, I see it fine (well, I think that is the german letter similar to a beta that gets read kind of 'ss' ) >Oh, and thanks for naming this after me. :) eh, I always wanted to name things :) >> It's very nifty indeed. I heard it was biased in some obscure way, >> though. > >It's biased when rand returns the same float for two or more elements of >the Array. I don't understand: what happens if it returns the same float for two different numbers? they just get near in the sorting, what's the problem with that?