Ruby Quiz wrote: > The challenge is to implement a program called "sample" that takes exactly two > integer inputs. The first of those should be the number of members you would > like included in the sample. The second is the upper boundary (exclusive) of > the range of integers members can be selected from. The lower boundary is zero > (inclusive). > > Your program should output exactly the requested number of members from the > defined range to STDOUT, one number per line. Each member must be unique and > they should appear in sorted order. The description does not say that the output needs to be randomly selected from the input range. Without that, printing the first <members> numbers would be sufficient---and really fast. (0...members).each { | i | puts i } Should the output be randomly selected from the range of input values? Jim -- Jim Menard, jimm / io.com, http://www.io.com/~jimm "Ask not a question of USENET, for it will answer both 'Yea.' and 'Nay.' and 'Ask in another group.'" -- Simon Slavin