in reply to Re^2: A bad shuffle
in thread A bad shuffle
No, don't withdraw it. I think the thing to do is try and figure out the difference between a "fair shuffle" and a uniformly distributed selection over permutations.
Are the two the same if there are identical cards in the deck? What is the problem that motivated this?
Sometimes confusion, like greed, is good.
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