The mathematics of the flip and horseshoe shuffles

DOI10.4169/AMER.MATH.MONTHLY.123.6.542MaRDI QIDQ4576131zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Steve Butler, Persi Diaconis, Ron Graham

Publication date 12 July 2018

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.8533

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Recreational mathematics (00A08) Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15)

Abstract: We consider new types of perfect shuffles wherein a deck is split in half, one half of the deck is "reversed", and then the cards are interlaced. Flip shuffles are when the reversal comes from flipping the half over so that we also need to account for face-up/face-down configurations while horseshoe shuffles are when the order of the cards are reversed but all cards still face the same direction. We show that these shuffles are closely related to faro shuffling and determine the order of the associated shuffling groups.

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