This is tangental, but I believe Persi Diaconis recommended like 13 riffle shuffles* if national security is at stake. Who knows, maybe one day nuclear launch codes will depend on the Solitaire cipher.
* Depending on how chunky your shuffle is. A pro card dealer can do almost a perfectly alternating riffle, which is obviously no good for national security.
Yes, and the trouble I've seen is that MTG players assume they aren't shuffling like a pro card dealer when their shuffles are actually even more uniform. IIRC Diaconis' original study even mentioned that the number of required shuffles balloons out of control with these very uniform shuffles.
Comments
This is tangental, but I believe Persi Diaconis recommended like 13 riffle shuffles* if national security is at stake. Who knows, maybe one day nuclear launch codes will depend on the Solitaire cipher.
* Depending on how chunky your shuffle is. A pro card dealer can do almost a perfectly alternating riffle, which is obviously no good for national security.
Yes, and the trouble I've seen is that MTG players assume they aren't shuffling like a pro card dealer when their shuffles are actually even more uniform. IIRC Diaconis' original study even mentioned that the number of required shuffles balloons out of control with these very uniform shuffles.