Probabilistic choice: Difference between revisions

=={{header|Julia}}==

I made the solution to this task more difficult than I had anticipated by using the Hebrew characters (rather than their anglicised names) as labels for the sampled collection of objects. In doing so, I encountered an interesting subtlety of bidirectional text in Unicode. Namely, that strong right-to-left characters, such as those of Hebrew, override the directionality of European digits, which have weak directionality. Because of this property of Unicode, my table of items and yields had its lines of data interpreted as if it were entirely Hebrew and output in reverse order (from my English speaking perspective). I was able to get the table to display as I liked on my terminal by preceding the the Hebrew characters by the Unicode RLI (right-to-left isolate) control character (<tt>U+2067</tt>). However, when I pasted this output into this Rosetta Code entry, the display reverted to the "backwards" version. Rather than continue the struggle, trying to force this entry to display as it does on my terminal, I created an alternative version of the table. This "Displayable Here" table adds "yields" to to each line, and this strong left-to-right text makes the whole line display as left-to-right (without the need for a RLI characer).

p = [1/i for i in 5:11]

plen = length(p)