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Sattolo's algorithm
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English
Etymology
Published in 1986 by Sandra Sattolo.
Proper noun
Sattolo's algorithm
en computing A variant of the Fisher-Yates shuffle that generates uniformly distributed cycles of some maximal length n, rather than permutations of the entire sequence.
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