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Re: shuffling a deck of cards

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg31802] Re: shuffling a deck of cards
• From: atelesforos at hotmail.com (Orestis Vantzos)
• Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 04:25:40 -0500 (EST)
• References: <9ua3bv$17h$1@smc.vnet.net>
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

singleShuffle[list_] := Sort[list, Function[If[Random[] > .5, True, False]]]
This function will "shuffle" any list using Sort.
You probably ought to nest it a couple of times to get better results.
As in betterShuffle[list_,n_:5]:=Nest[singleShuffle,list,n]
Orestis