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The mathematics of the flip and horseshoe shuffles

Authors :
Butler, Steve
Diaconis, Persi
Graham, Ron
Publication Year :
2014

Abstract

We consider new types of perfect shuffles wherein a deck is split in half, one half of the deck is "reversed", and then the cards are interlaced. Flip shuffles are when the reversal comes from flipping the half over so that we also need to account for face-up/face-down configurations while horseshoe shuffles are when the order of the cards are reversed but all cards still face the same direction. We show that these shuffles are closely related to faro shuffling and determine the order of the associated shuffling groups.

Subjects

Subjects :
Mathematics - Combinatorics

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1412.8533
Document Type :
Working Paper