Re: Random 1-1 mapping

Since an array has the factorial of its element count possible orders, your $input must have that range to obtain a 1-1 relation. Are you sure that so stringent a requirement is needed?

Check out List::Util::shuffle(). It may be good enough for what you want.

You won't want to keep C++ comments in your perl, and prototypes are usually not desirable. See perltrap.

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Re^2: Random 1-1 mapping by tomazos (Deacon) on May 28, 2006 at 18:37 UTC
Fixed comments. Been writing in both languages and can now write in neither. $input is just a scalar. It has the range 0..$max. I don't see where a factorial of the count comes in. The idea is: `shuffle(42, 10, 0) == 6 shuffle(42, 10, 1) == 1 shuffle(42, 10, 2) == 5 shuffle(42, 10, 3) == 8 shuffle(42, 10, 4) == 3 shuffle(42, 10, 5) == 4 shuffle(42, 10, 6) == 9 shuffle(42, 10, 7) == 2 shuffle(42, 10, 8) == 7 shuffle(42, 10, 9) == 0` [download] ? -Andrew.	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^2: Random 1-1 mapping
by tomazos (Deacon) on May 28, 2006 at 18:37 UTC

$input is just a scalar. It has the range 0..$max. I don't see where a factorial of the count comes in.

The idea is:

shuffle(42, 10, 0) == 6
shuffle(42, 10, 1) == 1
shuffle(42, 10, 2) == 5
shuffle(42, 10, 3) == 8
shuffle(42, 10, 4) == 3
shuffle(42, 10, 5) == 4
shuffle(42, 10, 6) == 9
shuffle(42, 10, 7) == 2
shuffle(42, 10, 8) == 7
shuffle(42, 10, 9) == 0
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