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The timestamp was down to a fraction of a second, so instead of having 52! possible decks (about 2^226) there were only 2^32 possible decks that could be generated by the algorithm.
Also: https://blog.codinghorror.com/shuffling/
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The timestamp was down to a fraction of a second, so instead of having 52! possible decks (about 2^226) there were only 2^32 possible decks that could be generated by the algorithm.
Also: https://blog.codinghorror.com/shuffling/