> Indeed you are correct - pardon me not making it clearer - the point was > to demonstrate using an example that would "feel" deterministic and show > that even in that case the arbitrary-pick should be expected or catered > for. Your example further highlights this (and is probably the more > common case).
The long and the short of it is that the result is exactly correct (and *always* entirely predictable). There is no "arbitrary-pick". If you think it is arbitrary or cannot explain the results obtained, the problem is that the question asked was ill-conceived. You should never ask a question to which you do not already know the answer (or, in this case, compute the answer so as to know whether it is correct or not).
