[NBLUG/talk] Request for help--how to program shuffling

[Andru Luvisi]

On Tue, 20 May 2003, Andru Luvisi wrote:
[snip]
> Here is a standard way to shuffle an array.  Sorry, I can't remember this
> algorithm's official name and my references are at work.  If you are
> creating an online casino you will want a much better random number
> generator.
[snip]

It is the Fisher/Yates shuffle.  See Knuth's The Art Of Computer
Programming, volume 2 page 145 and the Perl Cookbook page 121.

Andru
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