Re: Randomizing records in a file

Is this good enough

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On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Rory Hewitt <rory.hewitt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

All joking apart, height, hair color, eye color, first letter of name,
length of name etc. all correlate fairly closely with some racial and/or
ethnic characteristics. It's harder than you might think to find a
'pseudo-random' characteristic which really is random enough. Maybe day of
birth (within month).

I worked on one program which used the third letter in the surname as a
'randomizer'. It worked perfectly until it came to Mr Ng...

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 12:20 PM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx

wrote:

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

I vote for alphabetical by height.

I think by descending hair color might be slightly better, though.

John

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