Disclaimer: I am NOT a probabilist. Not only have I never taught probability, the last time I took a course in probability was in my sophomore year of college. So if this is well known (or totally wrong), forgive me. A non-mathematician friend of mine shared this link with me. It compares the lifetime risk of dying by various…
Tag: rule of thumb
Four shuffles suffice
It takes a while to shuffle a deck of cards seven times, but it is well known that that is how many riffle shuffles it takes to fully randomize a deck of 52 standard playing cards. This was shown in 1992 by Bayer and Diaconis. As it turns out, however, for some games fewer than…
David Richeson: Division by Zero 