March 26, 2009
10:25 p.m.
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Jan Kanis <jan.kanis@phil.uu.nl> wrote:
Just out of curiosity, would doing
l = range(2082) random.shuffle(l) random.shuffle(l)
give me (with a high probability) one of those permutations that is unreachable with a single shuffle? If so, I'd presume you could get any shuffle (in case you really cared) by calling random.shuffle repeatedly and reseeding the prng in between.
If you reseed, yes. That injects new entropy into the system. As I said though, you can end up needing megabytes of entropy. -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus