2010/11/12 Neil Toronto <neil.toro...@gmail.com>: > Jon Rafkind wrote: >> On 11/12/2010 02:25 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote: >>> >>> Any objections to `shuffle' in `racket/list'? > > No objections here. I will almost surely use this function in the future. > >> Dumb question but is this different from `shuffle-list' from games/cards ? > > Yes. The one in games/cards takes multiple shuffles to actually shuffle the > list. I think it's supposed to mimic physically shuffling a deck.
Several shuffles are needed in order to make the the distribution uniform. If I recall correctly, Knuth, writes that you need 7 shuffles. -- Jens Axel _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
