[alexandria-devel] Fwd: Knuth-Fisher-Yates shuffle
Nikodemus Siivola
nikodemus at random-state.net
Thu Dec 13 17:32:06 UTC 2007
On Dec 13, 2007 4:58 PM, Sean Ross <rosssd at gmail.com> wrote:
> I stumbled across this (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001015.html)
> a little while ago and thought that alexandria's shuffle could do
> with an update.
>
> Please find the attached patch which updates the shuffle function.
Gods, this is embarrassing! It was supposed to be the Knuth shuffle -- but
naturally I managed to screw it up when I decided to reverse the loop.
Thanks for the catch!
-- Nikodemus
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