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Re:Show HN: Deck of Cards – A playing card API by sesquipedalian on Monday May 11, 2015 @11:19AM (#9525384)
If I'm not mistaken, this sounds like an incremental fisher-yates shuffle.
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Re:Show HN: Deck of Cards – A playing card API by ivanche on Monday May 11, 2015 @12:46PM (#9526061)
You are correct. As the matter of fact, a bunch of games in majority of cases needed only the next card from the deck, that's why in our heads we almost always thought of "not shuffling at all".
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