[Python-ideas] About adding a new iteratormethodcalled "shuffled"

[Adam Olsen]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> Adam Olsen writes:
>  > "Not broken for small lists" implies it IS broken for large lists.
>
> You're being contentious.  It logically implies no such thing, nor is
> it idiomatically an implication among consenting adults.  And in any
> case, the phrasing I recommended is "guaranteed to have uniform
> distribution of shuffles up to N".  The implication of "no guarantee"
> is "have a mechanic inspect it before you buy", not "this is a lemon".

We'll have to agree to disagree there.

The irony is that we only seed with 128 bits, so rather than 2**19937
combinations, there's just 2**128.  That drops our "safe" list size
down to 34.  Weee!


-- 
Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus