Fisher-Yates shuffle
Also known as Knuth shuffle, Fisher-Yates-Knuth shuffle, Fisher-Yates permutation. This is the canonical page; those names redirect here.
The combinatorial-enumeration entry 'Fisher-Yates permutation' was the same algorithm and was merged here 2026-07-21.
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