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jim mcnamara · Feb 14th, 2007, 1:17 PM

If you are dealing a deck of cards, infogeek's method is what you want. You can deal a card only once. If you are doing something with "random" selections, then repeats have to be allowed, because that is what random means.

Feb 14th, 2007, 1:17 PM	#5
jim mcnamara Hobbyist Programmer Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: New Mexico Posts: 228 Rep Power: 4	If you are dealing a deck of cards, infogeek's method is what you want. You can deal a card only once. If you are doing something with "random" selections, then repeats have to be allowed, because that is what random means.