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Document number: N3925

Date: 2014-02-14

A sample Proposal, v4

by Walter Brown

Excerpt:

This paper proposes to add to the standard library an interface for two algorithms carrying out random sampling. Such algorithms have long been part of the original (SGI) implementation of the Standard Template Library. ...

5 Acknowledgments

Many thanks to the readers of early drafts of this paper for their thoughtful comments, and to Matt Austern for the original proposal of the sampling algorithms.