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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 215 1 b i Solution by
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One shuffle removes the ordered top cards and inserts them, in a uniformly random person-order, into successively chosen uniform slots. The transition rule depends on a deck only through relabeling of its cards, so its transition matrix on the symmetric group is doubly stochastic. Hence the uniform distribution on all permutations is invariant.
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