How many shuffles to randomize a deck of cards?

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2000.0625MaRDI QIDQ4521763zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors L. M. Trefethen, Lloyd N. Trefethen

Publication date 23 September 2001

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2000.0625

zbMATH Keywords

information theoretic entropyrandomizing processriffle shuffles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Markov processes (60J99) Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10) Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

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