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stillworks on Sept 13, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Algorithm No One Knows About (2016)

From the article: "Stated more formally: given non-negative integers k and n with k <= n"

Focus on k <= n.

Also, in the comments section in the article, the author counters a comment in favor of Python's random generator along the same lines.

tripzilch on Sept 16, 2019 [–]

He also just throws this out there: "visual inspection was enough to convince me that it [Python's sample function] was broken, without going further" -- with no explanation or in what way it is supposedly broken.

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