programming-examples/java/Numerical_Problems/Java Program to Implement Fisher-Yates Algorithm for Array Shuffling.java

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/*
This is java implementation of the FisherYates shuffle (named after Ronald Fisher and Frank Yates)algorithm, also known as the Knuth shuffle (after Donald Knuth), for generating a random permutation of a finite setin plain terms, for randomly shuffling the set.
*/
//This is a sample program to shuffle the elements of an array using Fisher Yates Array Shuffling algorithm
import java.util.Random;
import java.util.Scanner;
public class Fisher_Yates_Array_Shuffling
{
static int[] fisherYatesShuffling(int []arr, int n)
{
int []a = new int[n];
int []ind = new int[n];
for(int i=0; i<n; i++)
ind[i] = 0;
int index;
Random rand = new Random();
for(int i=0; i<n; i++)
{
do
{
index = rand.nextInt(n);
}
while(ind[index] != 0);
ind[index] = 1;
a[i] = arr[index];
}
return a;
}
public static void main(String agrs[])
{
Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.println("Enter the array size: ");
int n = sc.nextInt();
System.out.println("Enter the array elements: ");
int []a = new int[n];
int []res = new int[n];
for(int i=0; i<n; i++)
{
a[i] = sc.nextInt();
}
res = fisherYatesShuffling(a, n);
for(int i=0; i<n; i++)
{
System.out.print(res[i]+" ");
}
sc.close();
}
}
/*
Enter the array size:
12
Enter the array elements:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
The shuffled elements are:
7 10 8 4 9 6 12 3 2 1 5 11