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Re: Best way to get a non-repeating random number?

Subject: Re: Best way to get a non-repeating random number?
From: Graham Wheel <email@hidden>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:45:11 -0700

Focusing just on the non-repeating aspect, Deitel & Deitel discuss an algorithm to achieve this in C How To Program. Lets assume we are talking about shuffling a deck of 52 cards. Assign each card to an array element, then iterate completely through the array, swapping each element with a randomly chosen element. The result will be a shuffled deck, and each card in the resulting deck will be unique. This does not address of course the issue of the quality of the random number generator. _______________________________________________

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