On Apr 14, 2009, at 11:45 PM, Graham Wheel wrote:
then iterate completely through the array, swapping each element with a randomly chosen element.
As pointed out earlier, this is biased. The randomly chosen element should be chosen from the "unexplored" section of the array to obtain an unbiased generator.
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