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.

Utter twaddle! What I see is someone adding 2 + 1/log2 * sum of the log2 of an arbitrary list and drawing a random, and wrong, conclusion.

The Knuth-Fisher-Yates shuffle only needs to be able to pick 1 from N -- that is, generate a uniform random number between 1 and N; where N is the number of elements in the array -- as proven by Donald Knuth, arguably the greatest Computer Scientist of the current era.

Discuss.

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In reply to Re^2: Shuffling CODONS by BrowserUk
in thread Shuffling CODONS by WouterVG

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