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Article #1153Re: Card Shuffling
From: Jeff Boyd
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:28
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:28
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I'll add one comment to this discussion; I'm coming in part-way, so it may have been stated already: Be EXTREMELY cautious in your choice of random number generator and seed, particularly if 1) you will be dealing a large number of hands, 2) you must be certain that every possible hand can occur, and 3) every possible hand must be equiprobable. jeff (now leaving part-way :-))
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!utcsri!torn!news.ccs.queensu.ca!qucdn!boydj Organization: Queen's University at Kingston Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 14:28:33 EDT From: Jeff Boyd <BOYDJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> Message-ID: <92316.142833BOYDJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> Newsgroups: rec.games.programmer Subject: Re: Card Shuffling Lines: 12