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the mathematics of poker chip shuffling?
I tried to learn to shuffle poker chips like p this guy H + +: / / www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QH0IA8AD6M in not very good at math and want to find out how many mixes (s) will it be fully back a stack of x number of chips. anyone got the answer I got as far as n = x something
mathematics is not gonna make it easier .. all you need is practice .. youll finally .. as for the mathematics Part .. seems like a simple problem, but you do the homework yourself! Practice while mixing it! This could facilitate: Start with 2 stacks of different Paint chips. If you shuffle them consistently you can notice certain patterns. Placed right on top of the left stack stack, so that the lower left chip is at the bottom of the combined While the top chip stack is at the head of the combined stack right. As soon as I mix the chips together I'll take the top half and put it on the right side, so that the bottom on the left stack. The shuffle is repeated until the chips back to the same colors. When I was eight chips in each stack, then I get back all the same color chips in the same batch after 4 mixes. The following list shows the number of shuffles necessary for stacks of different sizes. 8 poker chips ==> 4 7 poker chips ==> 12 6 poker chips ==> 10 5 poker chips ==> 6 4 poker chips ==> 3 3 poker chips ==> 4 2 poker chips ==> 2 1 poker chips ==> 1 remember .. It also differnt ways to cut the stack so that the equation changes
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