Shuffle generation
Jim Roth
jroth at allvax.enet.dec.com
Fri May 17 22:20:21 AEST 1991
In article <4787 at osc.COM>, jgk at osc.COM (Joe Keane) writes...
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>Note that if you seed your random-number generator with a 32-bit integer, then
>there are only 2^32 possible permutations, no matter how big the array is. If
>you worry about such things, like i do, then you should make multiple passes
>over the array.
This won't result in any more possible permutations, only a different
set of them.
- Jim
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