A deck of cards needs to be riffle shuffled seven times to achieve a sufficiently random order. This is derived from the mathematical concept of permutations, considering a standard deck of 52 cards. Additionally, shuffling one card at a time would require an average of 236 single card riffles to completely randomize the deck.

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Riffling from factory order to complete randomness.TheoremLet’s Riffle

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