A famous paper by mathematician and magician Persi Diaconis and mathematician Dave Bayer on the number of shuffles needed to randomize a deck concluded that the deck did not start to become random until five good riffle shuffles, and was truly random after seven, in the precise sense of variation distance described in Markov chain mixing time ; of course, you would need more shuffles if your shuffling technique is poor.

Out of courtesy, a cut should be offered by the dealer to the player on the dealer's right after shuffling and immediately before dealing.

The expected number of swaps grows faster than the expected number of comparisons, because if the elements are not in order, this will usually be discovered after only a few comparisons no matter how many elements there are, but the work of shuffling the collection is proportional to its size.

Some practitioners use specialized cards, with each card representing a single geomantic figure ; in this case, only four cards are drawn after shuffling.

In a shuffling of the deck, Riley traded away Brown and Jamal Mashburn in exchange for Eddie Jones in one trade and acquired Brian Grant in another, although the team suffered a major setback after discovering Alonzo Mourning's kidney condition.

It was Eddie Fields who came up with the invisible presentation after watching a patient in a psychiatric unit of a hospital shuffling an imaginary deck of cards.

The attendants may manipulate the city ordinance by shuffling customer vehicles after the meter maid makes their chalking of the car tires, or by placing cones to block access to the spots, or even by using the valet's own vehicle in these spots for later use.

# Disneyland can Wait ( a promise to take us on Disneyland's Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, after we've used the 357 Magnum, AK-47, and B-52 loaded with Neutron bombs he buys us to deal with the souless, imaginationless, worthless, irredeemable, " lifeless shuffling horde ".

The Death Star strategy, named after the Death Star, was the name Enron gave to their practice of shuffling energy around the California power grid to receive payments from the state for " relieving congestion.

Shortly after the war as Head preceded his guest, Grantly Dick-Read, into the hospital dining room Read heard Head's shuffling footsteps.

He played another three seasons shuffling around the minors, retiring after the 2000 season.

He opened it a crack and in doing so made as much shuffling, coughing, and scraping noise as possible in order to drown emanations from the hen who had begun to protest.

He mumbled at her but let himself be led off inside the house, shuffling mightily to make it clear how weak and aged he was and how he was buffeted about by those who still had their wicked strength.

His first number was a medley of popular airs and " rags " and had everybody shuffling their pedal extremities before it was half over.

He had predictable mannerisms-having got to the crease with his " rolling, self-reliant " walk, he took guard, twirled his bat, tapped his bat in the crease and took several shuffling steps up to it.

In practice the number of shuffles that you need depends both on how good you are at shuffling, and how good the people playing are at noticing and using non-randomness.

O ' odham songs are accompanied by hard wood rasps and drumming on overturned baskets, both of which lack resonance and are " swallowed by the desert floor ", while dancing features skipping and shuffling quietly in bare feet on dry dirt, the dust raised being believed to rise to atmosphere and assist in forming rain clouds.

Diaconis has coauthored several more recent papers expanding on his 1992 results and relating the problem of shuffling cards to other problems in mathematics.

Designed to take up only a small space, Balboa involves chaining two-step movements together into groups of eight count patterns with two sets of four steps each while shuffling the feet on the floor.

They walk in shallow water looking for prey, shuffling one foot at a time on the bottom or suddenly opening their wings to flush prey out of hiding.

Transferring to a new host or in times of stress, sexual reproduction is generally superior as this produces a shuffling of genes which on average at a population level will produce individuals better adapted to the new environment.

Also cited was the consist switch that would take place ( shuffling sleeper and coach positions so that the transition sleeper was in the rear ), an eight-hour layover on Sundays due to the Pennsylvanians 1: 20p departure ( since eliminated ), and the lack of Viewliner sleepers to accommodate the service ( also cited are that the new ones would not roll out until 2012 at the very earliest ).

Agitation is performed by " shuffling " the films ; the sheet on the bottom of the stack is brought to the top and pushed down into the solution.

Unless a hand is seen and won by a prial, the cards from the hand are just placed on the bottom of the deck, and the next hand is dealt without shuffling.

Here in Agra fort, Shah Jahan would spend eight of his last years as a prisoner of his son, Aurangzeb shuffling between the hallways of the palace, squinting at the distant silhouette of his famous Taj Mahal on the banks of River Jamuna ..

Once done shuffling, the operator takes bets from the audience on the location of the pea.

By the end of 1998, shuffling assets to find the ideal portfolio and looking to restructure our operations and focus on our core competencies, Cojuangco sold San Miguel's stake in Coca-Cola Beverages, Coca-Cola Amatil ’ s bottler in Europe, along with SMC's 45 % stake in Nestlé Philippines.

The dealing and shuffling are instantaneous, there are no delays relating to counting chips ( for a split pot ), and on average the play is faster due to " auto-action " buttons ( where the player selects his action before his turn ).

In 2009, Renney was the subject of an Internet parody, The Ranger Line Generator, that focused on the coaches ' strategic shuffling of player line combinations.

Two other fundamentals of modern beat juggling technique include " tapping " or " walking ," where the DJ taps the record in between percussion sounds, stopping it momentarily to slow down the beat, or pushing it faster to speed it up, and " shuffling " or " strobing ," where the DJ loops the two records at different points in the beat, literally remixing the record live by playing new combinations of the sounds on the records.

So, we did our customary play on words, shuffling words about until we came up with our own invention – a feel-good elixir named Rhythmeen .”

With shuffling between deals it is unlikely for any one player to be dealt a hand he is willing to bid on ; this leads to multiple redeals before a hand is actually played.

On being handed the deck, the spectator is asked to mime the acts of removing the cards from their case, shuffling them, spreading them face-up on the table, freely selecting a card, replacing it face-down among the other face-up cards, and returning the deck to its box.

Some cars are shown shuffling sideways by moving their wheels about on their suspensions.

Turner was impressed by the random shuffling of chips in one's inventory and the instances of forced improvisation on the player's part.

The reverse is also possible, with bar coded dice shuffling as a source of true random data for computers.

Uses include its application as a vector for the cloning of recombinant DNA ; the use of its site-specific recombinase ( int ) for the shuffling of cloned DNAs by the gateway method ; and the application of its Red operon, including the proteins Red alpha ( also called ' exo '), beta and gamma in the DNA engineering method called recombineering.

Card quality can be preserved for longer if players agree not to bend cards, and proper shuffling techniques are used.

This method is useful for beginners and small children or if one is inept at shuffling cards.

It is quite common in casino poker rooms for dealers to use this method upon introducing a brand new deck, which are packaged in ranked order by suits, before shuffling it by some other means ( i. e., a riffle shuffle or shuffling machine ).

These issues are of considerable commercial importance in online gambling, where the randomness of the shuffling of packs of simulated cards for online card games is crucial.

Shuffling is highly illegal, besides, even without shuffling, the order in which each individual card is placed in the deck can alter the outcome for one side or another.

He is particularly known for tackling mathematical problems involving randomness and randomization, such as coin flipping and shuffling playing cards.

Sławomir Rawicz claimed in his book The Long Walk, published in 1956, that as he and some others were crossing the Himalayas in the winter of 1940, their path was blocked for hours by two bipedal animals that were doing seemingly nothing but shuffling around in the snow.

But while the cheat is shuffling he keeps track of the cards he wants to stack, and with a little practice he can manage to put the exact number of cards in between the cards he wants to stack to make the next round of dealing favorable for the cheat.

A major drawback of the Computing Surface architecture was poor I / O bandwidth for general data shuffling.

Although aggregate bandwidth for special case data shuffling could be very high, the general case has very poor performance relative to the compute bandwidth.

Unpredictable random numbers were first investigated in the context of gambling, and many randomizing devices such as dice, shuffling playing cards, and roulette wheels, were first developed for such use.

After shuffling around with sister Anne for two years, Mark left with his father for Monterey.

Tabernacle floors were covered with sawdust to dampen the noise of shuffling feet ( as well as for its pleasant smell and its ability to hold down the dust of dirt floors ), and coming forward during the invitation became known as " hitting the sawdust trail.

Walking out of doors became a matter of shuffling one ’ s feet to feel for road kerbs, etc.

When Slovak was under the influence, he would often wear brightly colored clothing and dance in a " shuffling " fashion, which became the inspiration for the song " Skinny Sweaty Man " from the band's next album.

An increase in complexity may be justified if there is some likelihood of confusion about the constant, or if there is a likelihood the constant may need to be changed, such as reuse of a shuffling routine for other card games.

Gibson's experience in 1960 was similar, pitching nine innings for the Cardinals before shuffling between the Cardinals and their Rochester affiliate until mid-June.