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  2. Fisher–Yates shuffle - Wikipedia

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    Their description of the algorithm used pencil and paper; a table of random numbers provided the randomness. The basic method given for generating a random permutation of the numbers 1 through N goes as follows: Write down the numbers from 1 through N. Pick a random number k between one and the number of unstruck numbers remaining (inclusive).

  3. Comparison of programming languages (basic instructions)

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    Characters are represented as strings of length 1. ... Python 3.x: for i in range ... MOVE «FUNCTION» NUMVAL(string) TO number:

  4. Comparison of programming languages (string functions)

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    string.length: Cobra, D, JavaScript: string.length() Number of UTF-16 code units: Java (string-length string) Scheme (length string) Common Lisp, ISLISP (count string) Clojure: String.length string: OCaml: size string: Standard ML: length string: Number of Unicode code points Haskell: string.length: Number of UTF-16 code units Objective-C ...

  5. Xorshift - Wikipedia

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    Xorshift random number generators, also called shift-register generators, are a class of pseudorandom number generators that were invented by George Marsaglia. [1] They are a subset of linear-feedback shift registers (LFSRs) which allow a particularly efficient implementation in software without the excessive use of sparse polynomials . [ 2 ]

  6. Pseudorandom number generator - Wikipedia

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    It can be shown that if is a pseudo-random number generator for the uniform distribution on (,) and if is the CDF of some given probability distribution , then is a pseudo-random number generator for , where : (,) is the percentile of , i.e. ():= {: ()}. Intuitively, an arbitrary distribution can be simulated from a simulation of the standard ...

  7. Bogosort - Wikipedia

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    import random # this function checks whether or not the array is sorted def is_sorted (random_array): for i in range (1, len (random_array)): if random_array [i] < random_array [i-1]: return False return True # this function repeatedly shuffles the elements of the array until they are sorted def bogo_sort (random_array): while not is_sorted (random_array): random. shuffle (random_array) return ...

  8. Comparison of programming languages (syntax) - Wikipedia

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    The enclosed text becomes a string literal, which Python usually ignores (except when it is the first statement in the body of a module, class or function; see docstring). Elixir The above trick used in Python also works in Elixir, but the compiler will throw a warning if it spots this.

  9. Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator

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    In the asymptotic setting, a family of deterministic polynomial time computable functions : {,} {,} for some polynomial p, is a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG, or PRG in some references), if it stretches the length of its input (() > for any k), and if its output is computationally indistinguishable from true randomness, i.e. for any probabilistic polynomial time algorithm A, which ...