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Old 10-26-2005, 03:52 PM
TomCollins TomCollins is offline
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Default Re: If I wanted to shuffle 8 decks of cards

To clarify, the following distribution happens:

ABC -4
ACB -5
BAC -5
BCA -5
CAB -4
CBA -4

So we only see C as the first card 8/27 times, and we see B 10/27 times. Definitely not fair.
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