Problem 1089. Create a random vector of integers with given sum

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Pauli Huusari on 9 Dec 2019

This should be quite straightforward but at 2a.m. my brains are not working 100%. ;)

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J.R.! Menzinger on 5 Dec 2012

I has exactly the same idea!!
but on the second line I used directly the logical indexing... ;-)

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