Browsing by Author "Lafrenière, Nadia"
Now showing items 1-1 of 1
-
Cutoff Phenomenon: Surprising Behaviour in Card Shuffling and other Markov Chains
[SNAP-2023-005-EN] Baraquin, Isabelle; Lafrenière, Nadia; Schuh, Katharina (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2023-12-21)This snapshot compares two techniques of shuffling a deck of cards, asking how long it will take to shuffle the cards until a “well-mixed deck” is obtained. Surprisingly, the number of shuffles can be very different for ...