I didn't run your code, and I don't trust it either.

But I assumed you wanted a brute force try and error shuffling.

> Do you mean like this (1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)

Yes.

And there is only one possible solution

(1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 1, 6, 1, 7, 1, 8, 1)

Trying 1e15 shuffles to finally get there seems like a good way to transform your hardware into an electric heater only.

Cheers Rolf
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In reply to Re^6: Algorithm RFC: fast (pseudo-)random shuffle with no repetition by LanX
in thread Algorithm RFC: fast (pseudo-)random shuffle with no repetition by Anonymous Monk

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