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:My original reference talked about choosing lines from a file, hence the title. The algorithm may be of use elsewhere (thanks for your suggestion Ledrug), but unless this algorithm has another name by which it is more commonly known, then I would like to leave the name as it is, rather than thinking up a new name that may only be of used on RC (rather than RC and StackOverflow :)<br><br> --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 21:43, 14 September 2011 (UTC) |
:My original reference talked about choosing lines from a file, hence the title. The algorithm may be of use elsewhere (thanks for your suggestion Ledrug), but unless this algorithm has another name by which it is more commonly known, then I would like to leave the name as it is, rather than thinking up a new name that may only be of used on RC (rather than RC and StackOverflow :)<br><br> --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 21:43, 14 September 2011 (UTC) |
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: IEEE double can handle 52 bits of integers without precision loss, which I guess should be big enough for realistic uses. --[[User:Ledrug|Ledrug]] 22:03, 14 September 2011 (UTC) |
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