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<h1>Shuffling of Playing Cards</h1>
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<p>Every shuffling of playing cards is a permutation.
<p>If we use 32 playing cards, then there are 32! permutations.
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"Every permutation has finite order" - this means:
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<p>If we repeat the shuffling, then after a while 
<br>the playing cards will suddenly lie in the original order ...
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<tr><td><p>Of course, this only concerns 
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(this means: shuffling using a fixed system - magicians can do this!)

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