Hello there. I realize this may be just a learning exercise, but the mention of a 'proper' shuffle came up above...

A shuffle is a random list permutation, of which there are n! possibilities. A 'proper' shuffle would emphasize the quality of the random source. PRNG needs at least log2(n!) bits of internal state to be able to generate all possible permutations. List::Util shuffle is likely using drand48. 

$ perl -MList::Util=sum -e 'print 1/log(2) * sum map log, 1..17;'
48.337603311133
$ perl -MList::Util=sum -e 'print 1/log(2) * sum map log, 1..1000;'
8529.39800420478

As you can see, 48 bits is not enough to properly shuffle a list of 17 elements. For one thousand element shuffle, more than a kilobyte of randomness is required.

In reply to Re: Shuffling CODONS by Anonymous Monk
in thread Shuffling CODONS by WouterVG

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