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Re: Re: Rearrangement of a sequence into random order

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  • Subject: [mg28461] Re: [mg28444] Re: [mg28434] Rearrangement of a sequence into random order
  • From: Wil Kortsmit <rcwil at win.tue.nl>
  • Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 04:24:11 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
  • References: <200104190726.DAA19424@smc.vnet.net>
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hello everybody,

Tom De Vries wrote:
> 
> I had this in my files.   It uses Sort and an ordering function....   it's
> probably one of many ways of doing this....  maybe it will do what you need
> it to....
> 
> In[64]:=
> scramble[list_] := Sort[list, (Random[Integer] == 1) &]
> 
> 
> ....

It is a nice exercise to prove that this 'scramble' algorithm
does not give a fair 'random permutation'.
Of course 'RandomPermutation' does.

Wil Kortsmit


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