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curprev 12:0312:03, 7 April 2025 TuukkaH talk contribs 6,692 bytes +57 rewrite the first sentence to depend less on links undo Tag: Visual edit

curprev 06:2406:24, 15 December 2024 Citation bot talk contribs 6,635 bytes −59 Removed URL that duplicated identifier. | Use this bot. Report bugs. | Suggested by Dominic3203 | Category:Randomized algorithms | #UCB_Category 2/44 undo

curprev 05:5305:53, 13 December 2024 John Baez talk contribs 6,694 bytes +3 In the first sentence it said a permutation is a random ordering, but a permutation is not an ordering; we can only identify permutations with orderings if we start with an ordered set of entities undo

curprev 18:2818:28, 23 September 2024 RowanElder talk contribs 6,691 bytes +39 →Statistics on random permutations: Added a {{main}} template since there is a dedicated page for this topic; I chose not to insert an excerpt template since the lead paragraphs of the linked page don't seem to me to work well as an inclusion here. undo Tag: Visual edit
curprev 18:2118:21, 23 September 2024 RowanElder talk contribs 6,652 bytes +310 →Randomness testing: Corrected and copyedited (Knuth shuffle was just a redirect to Fisher-Yates shuffle for instance), then moved into section on generation, which is renamed to computation undo Tag: Visual edit
curprev 18:0418:04, 23 September 2024 RowanElder talk contribs 6,342 bytes −22 →Fisher-Yates shuffles: General copyedit undo Tag: Visual edit
curprev 17:5817:58, 23 September 2024 RowanElder talk contribs 6,364 bytes +573 →Generating random permutations: Corrected and clarified some of the text of the entry-by-entry methods, which were not all "brute force." Not exactly elegant now but I hope at least less confusing. undo Tag: Visual edit

curprev 20:1220:12, 22 September 2024 JayBeeEll talk contribs 5,791 bytes −96 →Statistics on random permutations: trim needless verbiage; would potentially be open to re-inserting PIE undo
curprev 19:4019:40, 22 September 2024 RowanElder talk contribs 5,887 bytes +22 Small changes to lead section, copyedit and added games of chance up front since the first example is a poker deck not a randomized algorithm. undo Tag: Visual edit
curprev 15:0415:04, 22 September 2024 RowanElder talk contribs 5,865 bytes −46 →Statistics on random permutations: Removed duplicate sentence, copyedit and clarification. undo Tag: Visual edit

curprev 19:4219:42, 15 May 2024 AnomieBOT talk contribs m 5,911 bytes +14 Dating maintenance tags: {{Refimprove}} undo
curprev 19:2219:22, 15 May 2024 Johnsoniensis talk contribs 5,897 bytes +15 refimprove undo

curprev 01:3301:33, 13 August 2023 OAbot talk contribs m 5,882 bytes +16 Open access bot: doi added to citation with #oabot. undo

curprev 14:2514:25, 31 August 2022 WJ94 talk contribs m 5,868 bytes −4 Reverted edits by 156.38.117.104 (talk) to last version by Tcp-ip undo Tag: Rollback
curprev 14:2514:25, 31 August 2022 156.38.117.104 talk 5,872 bytes +4 No edit summary undo Tag: Reverted

curprev 07:3507:35, 23 August 2021 Materialscientist talk contribs m 5,766 bytes −562 Reverted edits by 83.185.44.55 (talk) to last version by Student298 undo Tag: Rollback
curprev 07:2907:29, 23 August 2021 83.185.44.55 talk 6,328 bytes +562 No edit summary undo Tag: Reverted

curprev 00:3000:30, 1 July 2020 Yifeng Li talk contribs 5,736 bytes +430 No citation or reference, so I added one related to the p.d.f. of the number of fixed points in a uniformly distributed random permutation. undo
curprev 00:1900:19, 1 July 2020 Yifeng Li talk contribs 5,306 bytes −259 Temporarily undo a citation addition I added before. undo Tag: Visual edit

curprev 07:0207:02, 30 June 2020 Jerodlycett talk contribs m 5,565 bytes +27 v2.02 - WP:WCW project (Reference list missing) undo Tag: WPCleaner

curprev 21:5321:53, 29 June 2020 Yifeng Li talk contribs 5,538 bytes −28 No citation or reference, so I added one related to the p.d.f. of the number of fixed points in a uniformly distributed random permutation. undo

curprev 09:0509:05, 26 June 2020 Jerodlycett talk contribs m 5,566 bytes +28 v2.02 - WP:WCW project (Reference list missing) undo Tag: WPCleaner

curprev 18:2518:25, 11 May 2020 DannyS712 bot talk contribs m 5,279 bytes +18 Task 70: Update syntaxhighlight tags - remove use of deprecated <source> tags undo Tag: AWB

curprev 15:3715:37, 27 April 2020 146.115.183.176 talk 5,261 bytes +16 Normalize the name of another article. Previous version referred to "Knuth shuffles", but the article for that shuffle is "Fisher–Yates Shuffle". undo

curprev 12:3512:35, 7 May 2019 Qsr03 talk contribs m 5,244 bytes +43 dead link corrected undo

curprev 00:3600:36, 2 March 2017 Finlay McWalter talk contribs 5,009 bytes −27 →See also: * Fisher-Yates shuffle is same article as Knuth shuffle, already linked. Per WP:SEEALSO, avoid repeating links in this section undo