From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: How to shuffle/jumble letters of a given word?
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 15:56:56 -0500
Date: 2015-07-02T15:56:56-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mn4jj0$n50$1@loke.gir.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mms19k$gpm$2@dont-email.me
"Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> wrote in message
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> On 06/29/2015 01:05 AM, Simon Wright wrote:
>> "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> writes:
>>
>>> You could also just sort the String.
>>
>> I don't see how this would work?
>
> "HELLO" sorted would become "EHLLO"; "WATER", "AERTW"; "ART", "ART". All
> possible random permutations of the original word.
Huh? You sort "HELLO" and get "WATER"? That's quite an amazing sort program.
I've written programs that did stuff like that, but I don't recall ever
claiming that I meant to do that. :-)
Randy.
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-28 14:06 How to shuffle/jumble letters of a given word? Trish Cayetano
2015-06-28 15:52 ` David Botton
2015-06-28 16:01 ` Anh Vo
2015-06-28 21:07 ` Simon Wright
2015-06-28 21:23 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-06-29 8:05 ` Simon Wright
2015-06-29 8:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-06-29 18:04 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-07-02 20:56 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2015-06-29 13:42 ` darkestkhan
2015-06-29 20:21 ` Austin Obyrne
2015-06-29 21:45 ` MM
2015-06-30 12:29 ` Austin Obyrne
2015-07-01 10:40 ` darkestkhan
2015-08-09 21:50 ` David Thompson
2015-08-10 15:20 ` darkestkhan
2015-07-11 15:29 ` Trish Cayetano
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