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Shuffling: what's the deal?

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Philip Ball finds out how many times you really need to shuffle that deck of cards to rule out any chance of dodgy dealing.

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  1. Trefethen, L.N. & Trefethen, L.M. How many shuffles to randomize a deck of cards? Proceedings of the Royal Society London A 456, 2561 - 2568 2000.

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Ball, P. Shuffling: what's the deal?. Nature (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/news001005-8

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