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Re: Arrays sorting!!

From Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Arrays sorting!!
Date 2017-06-12 16:08 +0100
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"Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> writes:

> On 12/6/2017 7:03 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> Do a search for Fisher-Yates shuffle.  It's only a small variation on
>> yours but, in its modern form, allows you to stop shuffling when you
>> have the six elements you need.
>
> Why not just simple qsort() aka quick sort?

Because sorting has nothing to do with what I was commenting on!

I was (a) suggesting how to do less shuffling; and (b) suggesting how
to avoid shuffling and sorting altogether.

-- 
Ben.

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  Re: Arrays sorting!! Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-06-12 12:03 +0100
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      Re: Arrays sorting!! Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-06-12 16:08 +0100
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          Re: Arrays sorting!! Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-06-12 16:46 +0100
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    Re: Arrays sorting!! Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-06-12 15:57 +0100
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