Re: [FWP] Weighted sampling

[John Porter <jdporter@min.net>]

Bernie Cosell wrote:
> my @dist ;
> foreach my $i (0 .. $#weights)
> {   push @dist, ($i) x $weights[$i] ; }
> 
> sub sample
> {   return $dist[rand(@dist)] ; }

Yes; that's what I did in the Rand::Passwd module.

-- 
John Porter

Useless use of time in void context.


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