XPost: comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc   
   From: me3@privacy.net   
      
   Dr John Stockton wrote:   
   > A question has been received, not necessarily needing   
   > an answer to the following ones.   
      
   Some trouble has been had trying -- and failing -- to determine that   
   sentence's meaning. Can it please be clarified?   
      
   > Is anything known about the Shuffling Dealing or   
   > Drawing of linked-list data?  How should they be done?   
      
   A note to anyone else planning a reply: The Web page John mentions   
   assigns special definitions to those three capitalized terms.   
      
   If a list object in Java does not support the RandomAccess interface,   
   then the Collections.shuffle function will copy the items into an array,   
   shuffle the array, and then copy the items back into a list. That turns   
   what would be an O(N^2) operation into three O(N) operations.   
      
   --   
   Rob   
      
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