John D. Cook1/12/2026

Combining in-shuffles and out-shuffles

John
A few days ago I wrote two posts about perfect shuffles. Once you’ve cut a deck of cards in half, an in-shuffle lets a card from the top half fall first, and an out-shuffle lets a card from the bottom half fall first. Suppose we have a deck of 52 cards. We said in the […] The post Combining in-shuffles and out-shuffles first appeared on John D. Cook .