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Re: Random number generator

Subject: Re: Random number generator
From: Marco Scheurer <email@hidden>
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 00:34:48 +0200

On Aug 8, 2005, at 22:34, Philippe Mougin wrote:

You can do even better (smaller, faster) by removing the need to generate all possible values:


[...]

// Now we shuffle the result


[...]

Rereading what was asked for and the example of use given makes me think that what is actually needed is not a random number generator, but a shuffling algorithm. They are of course well known. The Fisher- Yates shuffle was described in 1938...

http://www.stanford.edu/~blp/writings/clc/shuffle.html


Marco Scheurer
Sen:te, Lausanne, Switzerland   http://www.sente.ch

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