No-feedback card guessing for dovetail shuffles

Annals of Applied Probability

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1251-1269

  Ciucu, Mihai ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Card guessing; Dovetail shuffle; Riffle shuffle

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032286531     PISSN: 10505164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aoap/1028903379     Document Type: Article

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