"kid sister" resources underestimated?

Anonymous (nobody@replay.com)
Thu, 29 Oct 1998 00:32:00 +0100

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In the following snippet of pseudo-code, what should the value of
SWAP_TIMES be to make the array A[] random, assuming
that getrand() returned a truly random integer between
0 and 255

A[256];

for(i=0;i<SWAP_TIMES;i++){
        x=getrand();
        y=getrand();
        swap(A[x],A[y]);
}

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