This type of shuffle is called a Riffle shuffle. You have enough reading material to satisfy any curiousity about their mathematical properties in the
Mathworld entry for Riffle Shuffle and its references (You'll see that it makes a difference if you do an in- or out- shuffle).
japhy has a one-liner to do either-sided Riffle shuffles at Array One-liners. You can make this really succinct if you also use glob to generate the initial deck:
sub riffle {
splice @_, @_/2 - $_, 0, pop
for 0 .. (@_/2)-1;
return @_;
}
my @deck = glob "{2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,T,J,K,Q,A}{C,D,H,S}";
for my $shuffle (1 .. 10) {
@deck = riffle @deck;
print "shuffle #$shuffle:\n@deck\n";
}
It might also be interesting to see what happens when you change the riffle sub to:
## random-sided Riffle shuffle
sub riffle {
if (rand() < 0.5) {
splice @_, @_/2 - $_, 0, pop
for 0 .. (@_/2)-1;
} else {
splice @_, @_/2 + $_, 0, shift
for 0 .. (@_/2)-1;
}
return @_;
}
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