MonkeeSage wrote: > this ... requires that M be evenly divisible by N, No, it doesn't -- I never said the numbers had to be *equal*.
> and only works well with smaller N values, Why? > and selections are limited to numbers in the > 1 to (M/N)+(M/N) range I don't understand what you mean by that. Note that the adjustments don't have to be restricted to *adjacent* numbers -- you can pick any pair of numbers and transfer an amount from one to the other, as long as neither of them goes below 1, and you can perform as many adjustments as you like. So *any* sequence of numbers that sums to M is a possible output from some algorithm of this kind. As for the distribution, the OP said there were "no other restrictions", so it seems that the distribution doesn't matter. Actually, if you take that at face value, the numbers don't even have to be *random* at all... or, equivalently, they can have a very skewed distribution. :-) -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
