Maximal Length of List to Shuffle with Python random.shuffle?
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I have a list which I shuffle with the Python built in shuffle function (random.shuffle)
However, the Python reference states:
Note that for even rather small len(x), the total number of permutations of x is larger than the period of most random number generators; this implies that most permutations of a long sequence can never be generated.
Now, I wonder what this "rather small len(x)" means. 100, 1000, 10000,...
Can anybody clarify?
Thanks!
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