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		namibj 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The math of shuffling cards almost brought down an... As a sort of TL;DR: it's basically like selection sort but instead of selecting the sort-compliant choice among the remaining ones, you ask the RNG and pick a random one.

duskwuff 3 months ago [–]

However, note that using a random function as the comparator for a sort function does not generally result in an unbiased shuffle.

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