From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2004-10-05T02:18:29+09:00
Subject: Re: [SOLUTION] Secret Santas (#2)

On Oct 4, 2004, at 11:54 AM, Joe Cheng wrote:

> I have to give Niklas credit for setting maximum randomness as one of 
> his goals.  I just went for speed, simplicity, and correctness, which 
> was much less challenging.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but how you define correct can be 
interesting.  Your solution produces the same permutation, given the 
same set of names, right?  You'll have to change friends each year to 
keep the surprise factor.  ;)

Seriously, I'm just kidding around.  A truly random draw was not a part 
of the quiz, but it is interesting to me to examine which solutions 
went for it and to what degree.

James Edward Gray II