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Re:I analyzed shuffling in a million games of MtG Arena by vmilner on Sunday January 15, 2023 @10:03AM (#34389908)
Interestingly the method used to deal bridge hands for top tournaments doesn’t shuffle at all, it generates a random number between 1 and 52!/(13!^4) and maps that number to a corresponding deal of the cards.
Re:I analyzed shuffling in a million games of MtG Arena by LudwigNagasena on Sunday January 15, 2023 @12:42PM (#34391254)
Are you sure they do bijective mapping instead of simply running a RNG with the given seed?
Re:I analyzed shuffling in a million games of MtG Arena by vmilner on Sunday January 15, 2023 @01:18PM (#34391590)
Yes - see the “Making bridge deals” section of:

https://sater.home.xs4all.nl/doc.html