"It is seen that continued shuffling may reasonably be expected to produce perfect "randomness" and to eliminate all traces of the original order. It should be noted, however, that the number of operations required for this purpose is extremely large."
William Feller

January 1, 1970

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Chapter XV, Markov Chains, p. 407.

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