Cards & History
From Tang China to the French Suits: Assembling the 52-Card Deck
Nobody designed the modern deck. It accumulated, over roughly six centuries and four civilisations, and the pieces are still visible.
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Where the 52-card deck came from, how the suits settled into their modern form, and what mathematicians found when they finally studied the shuffle.
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Seven Shuffles: The Mathematics of Actually Randomising a Deck
Three riffles is not a shuffled deck. The number that is has been known since 1992, and it is more than most dealers do.
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