Khmer Linux Resources 3399

Looks not a hoax to me! It plainly works. See experiment above. Try your own ...

Uh, I simply wrote naturally, then jumbled the letters. I made no attempt to concoct the text.

Nevertheless, of course I have to use words I am practised at recognizing! If you want to say that I only recognize "common" words, however, then you would be deeply mistaken. To prove that wrong find two people with different ideas of what "common" is. You'll see that they aren't as good at the other as recognizing the other's "common" words.

So I conclude that your hypthesis is disproved.

Not so ...

Let's try your example ...

This algorithm is biased: the list's possible permutations don't all

(you are cheating by moving apostrophes - and later letters in separable words and word-digit combos).

have the same probability of being generated. The proof of this is

simple: take the case where we're pbutted a 3-element list. We generate

three random numbers, each of which can have three possible values,

yielding 27 possible outcomes here. There are only 6 permutations of he

3-element list, though. Because 27 isn't evenly divisible by 8, some

outcomes are more likely than others.

The First-????s shuffle avoids this bias by changing the range of the

(you are moving hyphens and merging two words - your scrambler is invalid)

random numbers it selects.

I didn't even have to read most of those words! I simply had to see the form of the sentence to get the gist.

Peter