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shuffling a deck
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- Subject: shuffling a deck
- From: http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)
- Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 02:36:40 +0000
I was re-looking over edition 1 of Simply Scheme and noticed that you
did card shuffling correctly! Some people assume that if you simply
exchange each card with some other random card, including those that you've
already "processed" that that will be a randomly shuffled deck. (I didn't
realize that this was an issue until about 2 months ago when I was reading
in Chance News that some people were taking advantage of the incorrect
way of shuffling on web-based card games and winning big! Pretty funny.)