Re^2: Perfectly shuffling a deck of cards, over and over

From the Mathworld reference above:

An ordinary deck of 52 cards is returned to its original order after 52 in-shuffles, but after only eight out-shuffles!

-QM
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Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of

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Re^3: Perfectly shuffling a deck of cards, over and over by ChuckularOne (Prior) on Jul 23, 2004 at 12:03 UTC
The good news is that in the real (physical) world, it's much harder to shuffle the deck perfectly. There is also the additional fact that after playing a hand of anything, the deck is not in order to begin with. That is a little more difficult to simulate.	[reply]