On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 08:14:00AM -0500, Bernie Cosell wrote:
> My intuition is that the problem is too constrained and that there
> *is*no* algorithm that meets all the criteria, but I'd be delighted to be
> proven wrong...
The original problem - finding a random line in a file - was solved by
induction. I tried to apply something similar to this problem. n=1
is easy. What does it mean to take the middle line of a file when n=2?
Simon
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