On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, [ISO-8859-2] Szeg? Ákos wrote: > > "There is no secondary sort criterion, and I don't have any desire to add > one. It's much more cumbersome than it's worth." > > I wasn't requesting one, either, just asking where the consistency is in > such rankings. To my limited programming knowledge, random > behaviour is an unlikely phenomenon in algorithms. >
It's not random, it's just that the order isn't apparent to humans. This is normal with hash tables. -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "Low Priced Cambridge Clare College. Big selection at eBay UK!" (Ad after Google search for Clare College Cambridge) +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | Digest version: http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help-digest/ | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives +------------------------------------------------------------------------
