random.shuffle?

[Erik Max Francis]

Jake Speed wrote:

> It's not selecting from the deck touched so far; it's
> selecting from the untouched deck -- it's counting backwards.
> This is the correct way to do it.

Indeed.  I managed to rather egregiously remember the Knuth algorithm
exactly wrong.  How embarassing.

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