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Why swapping cards at random is not a fair shuffle: Fisher–Yates and the 27 paths
Shuffling three cards by swapping each one with a random card from the whole row looks fair, but it is not. It makes 3 × 3 × 3 = 27 equally likely paths for…
Computing
4 min read
20 Oct