Talk:Perfect shuffle
Hostile task requirement?
When I try to post the result specified by this task, I get a message that the website is offline. Perhaps this is because that result is a 21010 character long line of text. But something similar happens when I try to post the result as a table with 53 lines of 253 characters. Perhaps the task should be changed to not require such a large result? --Rdm (talk) 17:10, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
- If everybody (hopefully) will be eliding the output (to something reasonable), why have the Rosetta Code task ask for 10,000 shuffles? Why not just ask for twenty shuffles (up to a deck size of forty)?. That would make outputs somewhat homogenized. -- Gerard Schildberger (talk) 20:15, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
- Did anybody realistically think that the programming entries (examples) would actually post 5,000 lines of output (I don't see one long line being easy to peruse). -- Gerard Schildberger (talk) 20:20, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
- Seems like a flaw to me to. Why not edit the task to ask for shuffle counts for 2^(2*n) for n = 1..7 i.e only for counts: [4, 16, 64, 256, 1024, 4096, 16384]
- Trying for: easy to state, similar size maximum, reduced output.
- Although I haven't run any code to see if the 16384 calculation is reasonable, time-wise.
- --Paddy3118 (talk) 22:33, 15 June 2015 (UTC)