> You'd think a reasonable math person--or any halfway competent programmer--would not throw in a call to math.random in the definition of their monoid! Yeah,

> You'd think a reasonable math person--or any halfway competent programmer--would not throw in a call to math.random in the definition of their monoid! Yeah, just pick 'a'; if he was in the database before 'b' chances are that he is the one who has been with the company for the longest time; and if that's a lie then is just as random as math.random anyway.