Showing posts with label deepthoughts. Show all posts
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Thursday, May 19, 2016

The Great Philosophical Shuffling Debate - Can I Shuffle One Card?


The Great Philosophical Shuffling Debate: "If you play a game with cards, and the game instructs you to shuffle your deck, and your deck only has one card in it, can you do it?"

Deep Thoughts.

My favorite responses:

"As a computer scientist, I can shuffle a deck with zero cards."
"If I can shuffle a deck of 52 identical cards, I can "shuffle" a deck of one card, which has exactly the same effect."