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Old 04-25-2017, 08:45 PM   #31
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If I may suggest ... "don't bother to 'over-think this thing,' cuz it 'probably' doesn't matter."

If you drew six random numbers out of a "hat" that contained the numbers [1..47], then the odds of duplication would be 1/47 ... a very-acceptably small number, to be sure.

Should you discover that a duplication did occur, you could simply replace the entry with another random number, then repeat the duplicate-detection process, knowing that the odds of finding a duplicate will not have changed.

It is actually possible to mathematically demonstrate that, in this case, it is more advantageous to "deal with duplicates, should they actually occur," than to construct an alternative process in which duplicates could not possibly occur.

However: "Six numbers? Out of 47?" WHOGAS=Who Gives A ..." NIKE="Just Do It™."

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Old 04-25-2017, 08:52 PM   #32
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If I may suggest ... "don't bother to 'over-think this thing,' cuz it 'probably' doesn't matter."
While I totally agree some programmers over-think simple problems to make them as efficient as possible, when, especially today, processors are so fast it really doesn't matter. But, in this case I just think your solution is unacceptably inelegant compared to others proposed that guarantee no duplicates on the first draw.

Sorry.
 
Old 04-25-2017, 10:01 PM   #33
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So you should really add user and sys together to get the real time spent by the processor(s) on your program.
This would not give credit to parallel programs though.

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If I may suggest ... "don't bother to 'over-think this thing,' cuz it 'probably' doesn't matter."
+1, it's silly to optimize a task as trivial as this one.

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guarantee no duplicates on the first draw.
The OP didn't specify whether or not there may be duplicates.

Oops, I missed #13

Last edited by ntubski; 04-26-2017 at 07:16 AM. Reason: OP did actually ask for no dups.
 
Old 04-25-2017, 10:13 PM   #34
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... If you drew six random numbers out of a "hat" that contained the numbers [1..47], then the odds of duplication would be 1/47 ...
I respectfully disagree.

If you do "sampling without replacement" the odds of duplication would be zero.
If you do "sampling with replacement" the odds of duplication would be
(1/47)+(2/47)+(3/47)+(4/47)+(5/47) = (15/47).

I took a basic statistics course a long time ago and memory fades. Corrections are welcome.

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Old 04-25-2017, 10:25 PM   #35
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This would not give credit to parallel programs though.


+1, it's silly to optimize a task as trivial as this one.



The OP didn't specify whether or not there may be duplicates.

Yes time adds the time spent by all processors together. So "real" time can actually be less than "user" + "sys" since multiple processor time is being used concurrently. That wouldn't happen here since it's not a multithreaded app.

Well it eventually came up (no duplicates).

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Old 04-26-2017, 01:18 AM   #36
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first you need to get one random number (1..47), next only (1..46) and add 1 if equal or greater than the first number.
next generate (1..45) and again increment if required...
It is much faster than shuf I think (and do not need to fork at all).

you can use /usr/bin/time instead of the built-in time to get different kind of result. Probably better.

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Old 04-26-2017, 06:39 AM   #37
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This question reminded me of some script I once wrote to generate some numbers for playing AD&D and not having any dice at hand.

Code:
if [[ "$1" == "" ]]
then
        printf "$0 #d#+#\n"
        printf "Example: $0 1d8+0\n"
        exit
fi

NUMDICE=$(echo $1 | cut -d 'd' -f 1)
DICESIZE=$(echo $1 | cut -d 'd' -f 2 | cut -d '+' -f 1)
PLUS=$(echo $1 | cut -d '+' -f 2)

if (( $NUMDICE < 1 ))
then
        printf "Amount of dice must be greater than 0\n"
        exit
fi

if ((DICESIZE < 1))
then
        printf "Give a positive integer greater than 0 for the size of the dice"
        exit
fi

if [[ "$PLUS" == "$1" ]]
then
        PLUS=0
fi

printf "Running $NUMDICE dices of type d$DICESIZE adding $PLUS.\n"
TOTAL=0
for((RUN=0;RUN < $NUMDICE;RUN++))
do
        ((ROLL=(RANDOM % DICESIZE)+1)) # 1 .. dicesize
        printf "Rolled a $ROLL\n"
        ((TOTAL+=ROLL))
        printf "Total is now: $TOTAL\n"
done

if (( PLUS > 0))
then
        printf "Adding $PLUS to $TOTAL...\n"
        ((TOTAL+=PLUS))
fi
printf "The total is now: $TOTAL\n"

Last edited by Ramurd; 04-26-2017 at 06:58 AM. Reason: Stupid to set RANDOM to PID
 
Old 04-26-2017, 09:01 AM   #38
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This question reminded me of some script I once wrote to generate some numbers for playing AD&D and not having any dice at hand.
which accounts for duplicates. that is a nice script.

if OP don't want dups then it is a matter of comparison, if match, call function to get a new random number, replace the old with the new and then ________________, before printing the end results to screen.

it is not that complicated

SOMETHING like this perhaps?
Code:
#!/bin/bash
#random 1 - 47 in an array

for (( i = 0 ; i < 6 ; i++ ))
{
	array[i]=$((RANDOM%46+1))
	echo "${array[i]}"
}

for (( i = 0 ; i < ${#array[@]} ; i++ ))
{
   echo "in eye = $i"

	for (( j = 0 ; j < ${#array[@]} ; j++ ))
	{
		if [[ ${array[i]} == ${array[j+1]} ]] ;
		then
		        echo "match"
			echo "${array[i]} == ${array[j+1]}"
			
		else
			echo "no match"
			echo "${array[i]} == ${array[j+1]}"
		fi
			echo "in jay=: $j"
	}
}

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Old 04-26-2017, 01:56 PM   #39
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The 2 I went with are:

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...9/#post5701973

(shuf one)
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...9/#post5701979

Thanks guys.
 
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Do you work for the Irish Lottery? ;-)

Imo, you're just going to have to store each number as it's generated and compare newly-generated numbers against those already generated in order to determine whether or not to accept or reject the newly-generated number. Loop until 6 discrete values have been obtained.
No. :-)

I just play the lotto.
 
Old 04-26-2017, 01:59 PM   #41
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The shuf option back in #6 ought to do that with no repetition.
Yes, that was perfect also.
 
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you forgot one important thing. in what language? ...
Hi BW-userx.

I don't mind what language - I'm not a programer. This is to generate random lotto numbers. :-)

BTW - your shuf command was my favorite and I added to an alias command for quick usage.

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Old 04-26-2017, 02:02 PM   #43
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Moved: This thread is more suitable in <Programming> and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.
Thanks, sorry for posting in General -- I was unsure of the proper place.
 
Old 04-26-2017, 02:13 PM   #44
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Hi BW-userx.

I don't mind what language - I'm not a programer. This is to generate random lotto numbers. :-)

BTW - your shuf command was my favorite and I added to an alias command for quick usage.
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