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Ricardo Reis's avatar

A shuffled deck, after shuffled, has only one state, the specific ordering of the cards it contains. Maybe an example with a deck with glued cards vs one with loose cards would make more sense ? Or is the number of possible end states of shuffling an ordered deck is lower than a random ordered one? Debatable if you need to assumed a perfect shuffling process … (unless, off course, I am missing something in understanding about entropy)

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Muckledger's avatar

Nice survey. Thanks!

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Boring Radical Centrism's avatar

The physics of how reversible computing is possible are beyond me in all honesty. But it sounds like something that'd be quackery like cold fusion or a room temperature superconductor

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