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Old story, but maybe worth repeating

Posted By: Rich Munitz
Date: Tuesday, 20 October 2009, at 8:27 p.m.

In Response To: Old story, but maybe worth repeating (Chuck Bower)

I recall learning in a Group Theory math course in College that if you can do 13 perfect cuts and riffed shuffles of a deck, you will wind up with the identical deck that you started with. It is also my understanding that there are magicians who are capable of this.

Perhaps that is why 7 (the midpoint between 0 and 13) is the magic number for randomness. And perhaps "random" is not necessarily random either, but just "most different from the original deck".

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