<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <!-- for emacs: -*- coding: utf-8 -*- --> <!-- Apache may like this line in the file .htaccess: AddCharset utf-8 .html --> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0 plus SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/2002/04/xhtml-math-svg/xhtml-math-svg-flat.dtd" > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> <head><title>random(List) -- shuffle a list randomly</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../../Macaulay2/Style/doc.css"/> </head> <body> <table class="buttons"> <tr> <td><div><a href="_random_lp__Module_cm__Module_rp.html">next</a> | <a href="_random.html">previous</a> | <a href="_random_lp__Module_cm__Module_rp.html">forward</a> | <a href="_random.html">backward</a> | up | <a href="index.html">top</a> | <a href="master.html">index</a> | <a href="toc.html">toc</a> | <a href="http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/">Macaulay2 web site</a></div> </td> </tr> </table> <hr/> <div><h1>random(List) -- shuffle a list randomly</h1> <div class="single"><h2>Synopsis</h2> <ul><li><div class="list"><dl class="element"><dt class="heading">Usage: </dt><dd class="value"><div><tt>random x</tt></div> </dd></dl> </div> </li> <li><span>Function: <a href="_random.html" title="get a random element">random</a></span></li> <li><div class="single">Inputs:<ul><li><span><tt>x</tt>, <span>a <a href="___List.html">list</a></span></span></li> </ul> </div> </li> <li><div class="single">Outputs:<ul><li><span><span>a <a href="___List.html">list</a></span>, a new list containing the elements of <tt>x</tt> in a shuffled random order</span></li> </ul> </div> </li> <li><div class="single"><a href="_using_spfunctions_spwith_spoptional_spinputs.html">Optional inputs</a>:<ul><li><span><a href="_random_lp__Module_cm__Module_rp.html">Density => ...</a>, -- make a random module map</span></li> <li><span><a href="_random_lp__Type_rp.html">Height => ...</a>, -- random element of a type</span></li> <li><span><a href="_random_lp__Module_cm__Module_rp.html">MaximalRank => ...</a>, -- make a random module map</span></li> <li><span><a href="_random_lp__Module_cm__Module_rp.html">UpperTriangular => ...</a>, -- make a random module map</span></li> </ul> </div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="single"><h2>Description</h2> <div><table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i1 : random toList (0 .. 12) o1 = {5, 12, 3, 4, 0, 8, 11, 10, 1, 2, 9, 7, 6} o1 : List</pre> </td></tr> </table> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>