Re: shuffling a deck of cards
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- Subject: [mg31786] Re: shuffling a deck of cards
- From: bghiggins at ucdavis.edu (Brian Higgins)
- Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 04:25:00 -0500 (EST)
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Peterangelo
Try this,
<< DiscreteMath`Combinatorica`
shuffleDeck = Map[Flatten[FullDeck][[#]] &, RandomPermutation[52]]
Cheers,
Brian
peterangelo at mindspring.com (Peter Dimitriou) wrote in message news:<9ua3bv$17h$1 at smc.vnet.net>...
> To Whom it may concern,
>
> the following is a deck of cards that needs to be shuffled, how would
> I do this using the Sort Command
>
> Clubset=Array[clubs, 13]
>
> {clubs[1],clubs[2],clubs[3],clubs[4],clubs[5],clubs[6],clubs[7],clubs[8],
> clubs[9],clubs[10],clubs[11],clubs[12],clubs[13]}
>
> Diamondset=Array[diamonds, 13]
>
> {diamonds[1],diamonds[2],diamonds[3],diamonds[4],diamonds[5],diamonds[6],
> diamonds[7],diamonds[8],diamonds[9],diamonds[10],diamonds[11],diamonds[12],
> diamonds[13]}
>
> Spadeset=Array[Spade, 13]
>
> {Spade[1],Spade[2],Spade[3],Spade[4],Spade[5],Spade[6],Spade[7],Spade[8],
> Spade[9],Spade[10],Spade[11],Spade[12],Spade[13]}
>
> Heartset=Array[Heart, 13]
>
> {Heart[1],Heart[2],Heart[3],Heart[4],Heart[5],Heart[6],Heart[7],Heart[8],
> Heart[9],Heart[10],Heart[11],Heart[12],Heart[13]}
>
> FullDeck=Sort[Join[{Heartset},{Spadeset}, {Diamondset}, {Clubset}]]
>
> {{clubs[1],clubs[2],clubs[3],clubs[4],clubs[5],clubs[6],clubs[7],clubs[8],
> clubs[9],clubs[10],clubs[11],clubs[12],clubs[13]},{diamonds[1],
> diamonds[2],diamonds[3],diamonds[4],diamonds[5],diamonds[6],diamonds[7],
> diamonds[8],diamonds[9],diamonds[10],diamonds[11],diamonds[12],
> diamonds[13]},{Heart[1],Heart[2],Heart[3],Heart[4],Heart[5],Heart[6],
> Heart[7],Heart[8],Heart[9],Heart[10],Heart[11],Heart[12],
> Heart[13]},{Spade[1],Spade[2],Spade[3],Spade[4],Spade[5],Spade[6],
> Spade[7],Spade[8],Spade[9],Spade[10],Spade[11],Spade[12],Spade[13]}}
>
> How do I shuffle FullDeck using the Sort Command so it is all mixed
> up?
>
> Peterangelo