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Add note that shuffle uses Fisher–Yates shuffle which is unbiased #138

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@burdges burdges commented Jan 29, 2017

Not sure if you actually want that wikipedia link. Or if one should reference Knuth, etc. instead. Just saying Fisher–Yates shuffle should help folks figure out that the result is unbiased.

@alexcrichton alexcrichton merged commit bb05039 into rust-random:master Feb 27, 2017
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Thanks!

pitdicker pushed a commit to pitdicker/rand that referenced this pull request Apr 4, 2018
Add note that shuffle uses Fisher–Yates shuffle which is unbiased
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