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Actually, when it comes to card shuffling, the American Contract Bridge League published some findings regarding the standard shuffling of cards. They found that seven full shuffles are sufficient to randomize the deck prior to dealing a new hand of bridge. Unless, of course, you have an unusually dexterous and unscrupulous dealer who is able to bias the deal. But when I was at UNO, I taught a course in Contract Bridge for the adult extension program. I generated quite a few random hands using a BASIC language compiler on the university computers.
To say something is "random enough" often simply means that its cyclic nature is as small as required to be beneath notice for the project at hand. For instance, if I am defining random numbers from 0 to 99 and subdivide that left-hand cluster into a 10x10 grid, it is about as "random" as the right-hand cluster.
To say something is "random enough" often simply means that its cyclic nature is as small as required to be beneath notice for the project at hand. For instance, if I am defining random numbers from 0 to 99 and subdivide that left-hand cluster into a 10x10 grid, it is about as "random" as the right-hand cluster.