Re: split the load?

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Autor: Alan Barrett
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A: Philip Hazel
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Assumpte: Re: split the load?
> Martyn Johnson (private communication) has suggested a much simpler way
> of doing this, which I will probably adopt. In brief: you multiply each
> MX by N, add a random number in the range 0-N, and then sort as before.



> A simple pseudo-random number generator is used, seeded with the time.
> It doesn't really matter if it is a lousy generator. I suppose I could
> exclusive-or the process number into the seed as well.
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