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IRC Quote (1)

Published
by
David
on February 3, 2008
in Code Poetry
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Here’s a small puzzle:

There’s a file with an unknown number of lines. From that file, I want to read and display 1 line. The line needs to be picked completely at random, so that every line has an equal chance to be selected.

What’s the fastest algorithm you can come up with?