the hermit
Was just wandering around looking at threads and read the *shuffle shuffle* thread started by napaea.
It has occurred to me on many occasions, a riffle and bridge shuffler from way back (a product of a misspent youth--fast women and good lookin’ horses), that there’s random and then there’s RANDOM.
I remember discussing cards and randomness in a college statistics class in which the professor and several text books stated that a deck of 52 cards would not be truly randomized until it had been shuffled at least 9 or 10 times. Since the Tarot decks normally contain 78 cards (1/2 again as many as a deck of playing cards) it should then take at least half again as many shuffles (15 or so total) to truly randomize a Tarot deck.
Now I don’t shuffle 15 times (normally 3 or 4… 5 or 6 times at the most), but I was wondering what you all thought about Random-ness and the Tarot?
How much is enough?
It has occurred to me on many occasions, a riffle and bridge shuffler from way back (a product of a misspent youth--fast women and good lookin’ horses), that there’s random and then there’s RANDOM.
I remember discussing cards and randomness in a college statistics class in which the professor and several text books stated that a deck of 52 cards would not be truly randomized until it had been shuffled at least 9 or 10 times. Since the Tarot decks normally contain 78 cards (1/2 again as many as a deck of playing cards) it should then take at least half again as many shuffles (15 or so total) to truly randomize a Tarot deck.
Now I don’t shuffle 15 times (normally 3 or 4… 5 or 6 times at the most), but I was wondering what you all thought about Random-ness and the Tarot?
How much is enough?