Revamped Perl Script To More Evenly Distribute Number Pool Match Odds

Posted by eggi on Sep 17, 2008 2:21 PM EDT
The Linux and Unix Menagerie; By Mike Tremell
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It's been noted (and I know that it's true) that the spread-system used in the last portion of our Perl script (posted yesterday in our entry regarding maximizing guaranteed matches) was somewhat uneven. The end result, of course, being that your given set-numbers from pool-numbers (3 from 5, 4 from 6, etc) guaranteed that the sets would be included in the generated pools, but (as was noticed by a few people, including myself) the downside (?) ends up being that the front-numbers are more heavily weighted.

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