Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Wed Apr 13 06:36:04 EDT 2016

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On 4/13/2016 12:52 AM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal wrote:

> BTW, isn't it impossible to randomly select from an infinite iterable anyway?

With equal probability, yes, impossible.
With skewed probabilities, no, possible.

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Terry Jan Reedy

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