Re: Shuffle problem
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- Subject: [mg84974] Re: Shuffle problem
- From: Szabolcs Horvát <szhorvat at gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:58:19 -0500 (EST)
- References: <fn1o0h$9n9$1@smc.vnet.net>
angela wrote:
> Hi;
>
> Is there a way to get Mathematica 6.01 to randomly shuffle a list: Is there a built in command that I am blind to?
>
> For example:
>
> {t,t,t,h,h,h} would become something like {t,h,h,t,t,h}
>
> The lists are of arbitrary length. I wrote my own function but it is kind of slow.
>
Hi,
The Combinatorica package has RandomPermutation[]
For version 6:
In[5]:= << Combinatorica`
In[6]:= RandomPermutation[{t, t, t, h, h, h}]
Out[6]= {h, t, t, t, h, h}
--
Szabolcs