Re: not enough real programmers?

[William Craig <bcraig@nshore.com>]

A "perfect shuffle" is a a shuffle where cards are split in exactly half
and then interleved perfectly. After a number of iterations of this
(I forget the number) the cards return to thier original order.

I think the random number question would be better. I really
did not like any of the questions in this list.

Eric Smith wrote:

> > prs@gol.com (Peter Stephenson) suggests the job interview task:
> > 4.  "Write a program to perform a "perfect shuffle" on an array of 52
> > numbers."
>
> mojaveg@ridgecrest.ca.us (Everett M. Greene) writes:
> > Anybody with a good answer to question 4 doesn't need to be interviewing
> > for a job.  There are any number of companies, academic institutions,
> > etc. who would like a definitive answer to that problem.
>
> I don't see why that should be a big problem.  The program would simply
> use the provided RNG (Random Number Generator).  :-)