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Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> Wesley Groleau fed this fish to the penguins on Sunday 11 May 2003 
>>On top of that, a shuffle by human hands
>>probably does not produce each possible
>>permutation with uniform probability!
>
>         In truth -- performing 8 perfect riffle shuffles on a standard deck 
> actually returns it to the original ordering.

What percent of people are capable of doing even
two "perfect" shuffles in a row?

Nevertheless, even the imperfect ones are unlikely
to "produce each possible permutation with perfect probability!

comp.lang.alliteration ?