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From: Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 18:16:05 +0100
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On 31 May 2013 12:56, Lee Crocker <leedanielcrocker@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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,

True

> and in fact will probably make it worse depending on how you choose the cutpoint.

I'm pretty sure it won't. Otherwise you'd be lowering entropy by doing
a random thing to a random thing.