From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2005-04-29T03:44:30+09:00
Subject: Re: TIMTOWTDI letter permutation

Peter Fitzgibbons <Peter.Fitzgibbons@lakewoodhomes.net> wrote:
> 
> What's the practical applicatin of being able to pick-off the i.th
> permutation of an array?

One I can think of offhand is an easy way to generate uniformly distributed
shuffles without repeats.

martin