On 12 March 2011 22:16, Michael Pavling <pavl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12 March 2011 22:01, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> OK, I admit defeat. the benefit of your technique is even greater on 1.8.7, >> taking only 0.67 secs on my machine. > > Nah! Who cares if it takes half-a-second or a second to select a > million random numbers.... any of the methods are perfect for > selecting one number.
The OP might be doing some statistical simulation, so might need millions of values, but probably not. Colin > > Was a nice distraction from the recent run of posts... > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
