suggestion

Joe Riel — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:36:51 Z

You might want to use the RandomTools package to generate the lists of numbers:

n := 10: # I'm guessing n is number of element in list
L := RandomTools:-Generate(list(float(range=0..1,digits=10,method=uniform), n));
L := sort(L);

Rather than assigning to variables, it is easier to operate on each:

[seq(max(abs(i/n - L[i]), abs((i-1)/n-L[i])), i = 1..n)];

I'll let you figure out the loop...

Statistics

Robert Israel — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:55:37 Z

Another way is to use Sample in the Statistics package.

> with(Statistics):
   U:= RandomVariable(Uniform(0,1));
   S:= sort(Sample(U, 6));