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    Cutoff Phenomenon: Surprising Behaviour in Card Shuffling and other Markov Chains
    (Oberwolfach : Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach gGmbH, 2023) Baraquin, Isabelle; Lafrenière, Nadia; Schuh, Katharina
    This snapshot compares two techniques of shuffling a deck of cards, asking how long it will take to shuffle the cards until a “well-mixed deck” is obtained. Surprisingly, the number of shuffles can be very different for very similar looking shuffling techniques.