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Comment by strogonoff

> You need about 10000 (ten thousand) of them to shuffle an ordinary deck of 52 cards.

My source[0] says the lower bound for full overhand shuffle is number of cards squared, so less than 3000 shuffles for 52 cards. Upper bound around 5000.

Your source?

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0501401

parent strogonoff 6 years ago

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