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		burgerbrain on Jan 14, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: A visual explanation of Fisher–Yates shuf... To be fair, the wikipedia page for the algorithm is called "Fisher–Yates shuffle". This is in my experience a common way to call an algorithm. I can't think of a better way to do it.

benmathes on Jan 16, 2012 [–]

After putting a few seconds of thought into it, "In place shuffle" explains what it does better than "Fisher-Yates shuffle".

I'm not complaining about Fisher or Yates, who are just following the example their/our research community uses.

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