Re: shuffling elements of a list

On Wed, 31 May 2006 12:17:11 +0200, Sybren Stuvel
<sybrenUSE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

David C Ullrich enlightened us with:
I thought that the fact that you could use the same trick for
_shuffling_ a list was my idea, gonna make me rich and famous. I
guess I'm not the only one who thought of it. Anyway, you can use
DSU to _shuffle_ a list by decorating the list with random numbers.

This is often done in database queries that need to randomize the data
;-)

Huh. Gotta find a good patent attorney<g>.

Sybren


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