[Haskell-cafe] How to select n random words from a file ...

[Aditya Manthramurthy]

Pick the i-th word (replacing the previously chosen word, if any) with
probability 1/i? (numbering of words starts from 1 instead of 0).

On 11 June 2012 11:13, KC <kc1956 at gmail.com> wrote:

> An interesting related problem is if you are only allowed one pass through
> the data how would you randomly choose one word.
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