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By syam1224
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Published: May 31 2008 / 08:03

How to Shuffle a Deck of Cards using Java
Card Shuffling is a general interview question for many companies including Microsoft,Google and Amazon.This link has a code snippet which will shuffle a deck of cards using Knuth Shuffle.
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Dan Dyer replied ago:

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Easier to just use Collections.shuffle().

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wheazel replied ago:

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Collections.shuffle() nor the suggested algoritme is very good.

Real card decks are shuffled by hand, meaning you take a part of the deck and place it on top.
Random shuffles will impact game, since the cards are too random...

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syam1224 replied ago:

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Hand Shuffling is not good if not done scientifically.
A normal poker shuffle involve multiple standard shuffles.
The Knth algorithm is perfect if we could find a random number between 0 and N, which is not theoretically possible using computers. But to almost all practical purposes this should suffice

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