Superficially, any arrangement of cards should be equally likely to exist, i.e., no one ordering should be favored over another. I'm a bit ill-equipped to go m

Superficially, any arrangement of cards should be equally likely to exist, i.e., no one ordering should be favored over another. I'm a bit ill-equipped to go much further than that currently, but the Numberphile video linked in the post may help! There's also been research on this topic too that you get to from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuffling#Randomization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuffling#Randomization