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Letter: For the record

Published 18 April 2007

• We quoted Persi Diaconis asking whether there are any decks of cards larger than 52 cards that take “a deck-size number of out-shuffles” to bring them back to their starting sequence (24 March, p 52). That should have been in-shuffles.

Issue no. 2600 published 21 April 2007

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