Re: lynx-dev Options, V.Links, random (was: patch 6 - UI Pages)

[T.E.Dickey]

> On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Henry Nelson wrote: 
>  
> > > collision.  Creating names from this pool in pseudo-random fashion 
> > > means that, as soon as you have generated two filenames, there is some 
> > > chance that they are the same - and the more names you generate, the 
> >  
> > I thought there was a way to randomly pick from a declining pool, i.e., 
> > first choice is 1 out of 10000, second choice is 1 out of 9999, and so 
> > on. 
>  
> Only if you keep a list of all choices taken so far. 
>  
> > When you take the last card, you reshuffle the deck. 
>  
> More like, game's over. 

if you're holding 10000 cards, you may have some explaining to do...
  
>    Klasu 
>  


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