Random choice
The following function prints (in order)
k
random elements
from the first
n
elements of the array
A.
In the program,
k
is the number of entries that still need to be printed,
and
n
is the number of elements yet to be examined.
The decision of whether to print the
ith
element is determined by the test
rand() < k/n.
function choose(A, k, n, i) {
for (i = 1; n > 0; i++)
if (rand() < k/n--) {
print A[i]
k--
}
}
}
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