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Another procedure is called "stripping", where small groups of

cards are removed from the top or bottom of a deck and relacedreplaced on

the opposite side (or just assembled on the table in reverse order).

This is a much less effective randomizing procedure, and is not

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Shuffling is often followed by a [[cut (playing cards)|cut]].

The mathematician and magician [[Persi Diaconis]] is an expert on the theory and practice of card shuffling, and an author of a famous paper on the number of shuffles needed to randomize a deck.
Recently, the work of Trefethen et. al. has questioned some of Diaconis' results. The difference appears to hinge on the definition of "randomize".

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