Talk:Persi Diaconis

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the stub creataor probaly knows why this guy needs to be in an encyclopaedia - but more details or desciptions need to be included Tiksustoo 12:11, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Dovetail shuffle

The article says

Diaconis established that the deck gradually increases in randomness until seven shuffles, then suddenly becomes much more random.

Shouldn't that be "suddenly becomes much less random"? 24.180.187.9 08:41, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

No, definitely more random -- that's the point of shuffling a deck of cards, right? 74.96.132.139 16:20, 21 July 2007 (UTC)