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Re: Quick Question

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  • Subject: [mg78101] Re: [mg78090] Quick Question
  • From: "Thomas Dowling" <thomasgdowling at gmail.com>
  • Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 07:01:53 -0400 (EDT)
  • References: <200706221050.GAA16639@smc.vnet.net>

Hello Rob,

listie =  {1,2,3,4,5,6}

With Mathematica 5.2, try:

<< DiscreteMath`Combinatorica`
RandomPermutation[listie]

giving ...

Out[3]= {1, 4, 5, 2, 3, 6}

With Mathematica 6:

< Combinatorica`
RandomPermutation[listie]



I presume this is what you want to do?

Thomas Dowling

On 6/22/07, rob cronin <cronin_rob at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Quick Question:
>
> With Mathematica 5.2 is there any way to scramble a simple list of
> numbers:
> i.e. randomly rearange the list {1,2,3,4,5,6} without any apparent order.
>
> Kind regards
>
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