Any time discussions turn to randomness and such, someone will use that discussion for security related purposes at some later date. That having been said, I feel that it's my duty as an upstanding netizen to bring to light the implications of certain things. On we go...
Therefore, a random shuffle (or multiple random shuffles, depending on the desired cardinality) can be transformed algorithmically into a random number
Unless you enumerate all of the permutations of the set, I don't know how this could possibly work. Even if you are, you're reducing the size of your output number drastically.

There are n! ways to permute a set of n items. There are n**n ways to choose n items from a set of n with replacement. The limit as n tends to zero of n!/n**n is zero. What this means is that compared with the cardinality of just choosing n random numbers from 1 to n, generating a random number with from a random shuffle gets progressively worse for larger n. This would imply (well, to me anyways) that if you're looking for a random number, better to do it directly than to first shuffle and then transform that shuffle into one.

A random number need not necessarily be chosen from an infinite set
Point conceded. I mis-spoke.

thor

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In reply to Re^7: How to generate different random numbers? by thor
in thread How to generate distinct random numbers? by johnnywang

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