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Shuffling and Mixing
Lotto ball machines work well to randomize ball picks because of their mixing properties. A closely related problem is how many shuffles are sufficient to randomize a deck of cards. The following curve is pulled from an AMS (American Mathematic Society) post on this topic. A link to the post is given below. https://www.ams.org/publicoutreach/feature-column/fcarc-shuffle d is a measure of how close the pdf (probability distribution function) of the card ordering is from uni
Dec 24, 2023, 5:01 pm - Wavepack - Mathematics Forum