Re: Compare two methods of random permutations

From	Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de>
Newsgroups	comp.programming
Subject	Re: Compare two methods of random permutations
Date	2013-05-19 17:24 +0200
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Am 19.05.2013 17:11, schrieb James Dow Allen:
> On May 19, 9:14 pm, Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.s...@t-online.de> wrote:
>> But then you are returning to the common Fisher and
>> Yates scheme, which employs generally a good PRNG
>> returning a PRN in [0, 1) as real numbers, as explained
>> in Knuth's book. That's nothing new, isn't it?
>>
>> M. K. Shen
>
> Invoke the PRNG 8 times instead of 51 times.
> What were you trying to do anyway, do
> you even remember?

[Addendum to my previous post] I forgot to answer your
question. I want to, if possible, use only 2 PRNs
in range [0,n-1] for e.g. n=52.

M. K. Shen

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  Re: Compare two methods of random permutations James Dow Allen <jdallen2000@yahoo.com> - 2013-05-11 21:31 -0700
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                Re: Compare two methods of random permutations James Dow Allen <jdallen2000@yahoo.com> - 2013-05-19 05:52 -0700
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