Sure, but runtime depends on your luck.
#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use List::Util qw( shuffle reduce );
my @list = qw( f a d e z x c b );
sub in_order {
my $state = 1;
our( $a, $b );
my $ordered = reduce { if( $state and $b lt $a ) { $state = undef; }
+ $b } @_;
return $state;
}
my $shuffles = 0;
my @ordered = @list;
my %memory;
until ( in_order( @ordered ) ) {
$memory{ join("\0",@ordered) } = 1;
while( 1 ) {
@ordered = shuffle( @list );
$shuffles++;
last unless $memory{ join("\0",@ordered) };
}
}
print "took $shuffles shuffles to get\n\t", join( "\n\t", @ordered ),
+"\n";
exit 0;
__END__
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