Re: Cutting a deck of cards

2013-06-01 Thread Lee Crocker
>> 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. Doing a random thing to a random thing usually *does* lower entropy when the "random" things are a

Re: Cutting a deck of cards

2013-05-31 Thread Lee Crocker
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