In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Simon Cozens writes:
: 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? This is the sort of concern I had in mind when I said pick a reasonable definition and get to work. Greg
