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- From: henebry@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Geoffrey M Henebry)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Looking for random permutation generation algorithms
- Date: 8 Jan 1993 12:26:30 -0600
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- rayw@ee.ubc.ca (raymond w m woo) writes:
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- >Hi, does anyone know, or can provide any pointer in the literature to, any
- >random permutation generation algorithm that can be easily implemented as a
- >function in a computer program?
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- >But of course, I am interested in knowing *all* kinds of permutation generation
- >algorithms.
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- try: 1) Combinatorial Algorithms, A. Nijenhuis & H.S. Wilf, Academic: New York,
- 1975, ISBN: 0-12-519250-9, 253 pp.
- 2) Elements of Combinatorial Computing, M.B. Wells, Pergamon: New York,
- 1971, ISBN:none evident, Lib. of Congress: 77-129633, 258 pp.
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- good luck!
-