Cutting a deck of cards

[Joshua Landau]

On 31 May 2013 12:56, Lee Crocker <leedanielcrocker at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why on Earth would you want to? "Cutting" a deck makes no sense in software. Randomize the deck properly (Google "Fisher-Yates") and start dealing. Cutting the deck will not make it any more random,

True

> and in fact will probably make it worse depending on how you choose the cutpoint.

I'm pretty sure it won't. Otherwise you'd be lowering entropy by doing
a random thing to a random thing.