Re:What happens if you remove randomness from Doom?
by swang on Thursday April 23, 2015 @08:27PM
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This is PlanetPoker[0]
The gist of it is their algorithm never chose the last card in the array to swap with, and the last card was never guaranteed to be the last card. They also committed the common mistake of implementing the "naive" shuffle, which is not equally distributed.
The gist of it is their algorithm never chose the last card in the array to swap with, and the last card was never guaranteed to be the last card. They also committed the common mistake of implementing the "naive" shuffle, which is not equally distributed.
[0] http://www.cigital.com/papers/download/developer_gambling.ph...