384. Shuffle an Array

Sharko Shen
Data Science & LeetCode for Kindergarten
1 min readMay 30, 2023

Given an integer array nums, design an algorithm to randomly shuffle the array. All permutations of the array should be equally likely as a result of the shuffling.

Implement the Solution class:

  • Solution(int[] nums) Initializes the object with the integer array nums.
  • int[] reset() Resets the array to its original configuration and returns it.
  • int[] shuffle() Returns a random shuffling of the array.

Example 1:

Input
["Solution", "shuffle", "reset", "shuffle"]
[[[1, 2, 3]], [], [], []]
Output
[null, [3, 1, 2], [1, 2, 3], [1, 3, 2]]

Explanation
Solution solution = new Solution([1, 2, 3]);
solution.shuffle(); // Shuffle the array [1,2,3] and return its result.
// Any permutation of [1,2,3] must be equally likely to be returned.
// Example: return [3, 1, 2]
solution.reset(); // Resets the array back to its original configuration [1,2,3]. Return [1, 2, 3]
solution.shuffle(); // Returns the random shuffling of array [1,2,3]. Example: return [1, 3, 2]

思路Coding化:

class Solution:

def __init__(self, nums: List[int]):
self.arr = nums.copy()

def reset(self) -> List[int]:
return self.arr

def shuffle(self) -> List[int]:
ans = self.arr.copy()
for i in range(len(ans)):
# Fisher-Yates Algorithm
# 從剩下的數隨機抽取並與當前數字交換
swp_num = random.randrange(i, len(ans))
ans[i],ans[swp_num] = ans[swp_num], ans[i]
return ans

Time Complexity: O(n)

Space Complexity: O(n)

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Sharko Shen
Data Science & LeetCode for Kindergarten

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