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Analysis of casino shelf shuffling machines
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projecteuclid.org
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ricardomcgowan
on July 29, 2020
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ksaj
on July 29, 2020
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A lot of what we call Card Shufflers are actually Card Rifflers - interleaving 2 halves of a deck together.
Juan Tamariz has made a career in card magic based on most people not knowing the difference.
dtagames
on July 29, 2020
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TL;DR: Lots of math is used to show that a novel mechanical card shuffler using psuedorandom numbers needs to be run twice in a row to be effective at preventing players from guessing the resulting cards.
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Juan Tamariz has made a career in card magic based on most people not knowing the difference.