> Why on Earth would you want to? "Cutting" a deck makes no sense in > software. Randomize the deck properly (Google "Fisher-Yates") and start > dealing. Cutting the deck will not make it any more random, and in fact > will probably make it worse depending on how you choose the cutpoint. > > The purpose of "cutting" cards is to make it more difficult for human > dealers to stack a deck. Simulating it in software makes no more sense than > simulating the cigars you smoke while playing. > > Perhaps the OP wanted to study the efficiency and affect of a real-world shuffling algorithm :-p Maybe he was designing a probabilistic magic trick and needed to evaluate how a cut would modify the outcome of a particular stack. Maybe it was a school assignment. Who knows?
(But yeah if the purpose was for pure randomization then there's no real point.) There could be a lot of legitimate reasons though. -Modulok-
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