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[–] 3 points 4 months ago

Wikipedia highlights this difference on their disambiguation page if you look up “Perfect Shuffle.”

It may refer to

  • the Faro shuffle, in particular the interpretation whereby cards (or more generally, entities in sequence) are divided into two equal piles and interleaved.

Or

  • Any shuffling algorithm that guarantees perfect randomness

I added bold because that’s the one we’re talking about.

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