The Math of Card Shuffling
Riffling from factory order to complete randomness.You’ve probably seen a few ways to shuffle a deck of cards.
Sometimes the deck is split in half and the halves are switched.
Sometimes the deck is smooshed until it’s all mixed up.
But most of the time, a deck of cards is shuffled using a riffle.Here’s a question: how many times do you have to riffle a deck of cards before it is completely shuffled?
It’s a tricky one, but math has us covered: you need seven riffles.
We can calculate the number o...
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