Sattolo's algorithm

Meaning

Proper Noun

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

Origin

  • Published in 1986 by Sandra Sattolo.

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