English Explanatory Dictionary

Sattolo's algorithm

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A variant of the Fisher-Yates shuffle that generates uniformly distributed cycles of some maximal length n, rather than permutations of the entire sequence.

Word forms

Sattolo's algorithm

Etymology

Published in 1986 by Sandra Sattolo.

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