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The randomization of a deck of cards by repeated interleaving. More generally, a shuffle is a rearrangement of the elements in an ordered list. Shuffling by exactly interleaving two halves of a deck is called a riffle shuffle. Shuffling by successively interchanging the cards in position 1, 2, ..., 
with cards in randomly chosen positions is known as an exchange shuffle. Normal shuffling leaves gaps of different lengths between the two layers of cards and so randomizes the order of the cards.
Keller (1995) showed that roughly 
shuffles are needed just to randomize the bottom card.
See also
Bays' Shuffle, Cards, Exchange Shuffle, Monge's Shuffle, Out-Shuffle, Riffle Shuffle
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References
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