On Wed, 31 May 2006 12:17:11 +0200, Sybren Stuvel
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>David C  Ullrich enlightened us with:
>> I thought that the fact that you could use the same trick for
>> _shuffling_ a list was my idea, gonna make me rich and famous. I
>> guess I'm not the only one who thought of it. Anyway, you can use
>> DSU to _shuffle_ a list by decorating the list with random numbers.
>
>This is often done in database queries that need to randomize the data
>;-)

Huh. Gotta find a good patent attorney<g>.

>Sybren


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