From: David Madden Date: 2007-01-17T04:29:33+09:00 Subject: Re: what is dup? >> > > dup returns a copy (duplicate) of the object. In the above code, it is > used to let you get back a shuffled copy of the Array, without > shuffling the original. > > type: > ri Object#dup > for more info. > Thanks, Dave.