From: Gareth Adams <gareth.adams@...>
Date: 2008-01-18T18:19:39+09:00
Subject: Re: [SUMMARY] Counting Cards (#152)

Ruby Quiz <james <at> grayproductions.net> writes:

> 	    size.times do |i|
> 	      j = rand(size)
> 	      @shoe[i],@shoe[j] = @shoe[j],@shoe[i]
> 	    end
> (the code is just a longhand form of @shoe.sort_by { rand }).

Easy to think that, but this is the exact same definition of a "naive algorithm"
demonstrated recently and very well summed up by Jeff Atwood:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001015.html

Gareth