I know a post about this has been made already over 5 years ago, but there wasnt a singular comment under it. what im trying to understand is what it is, how it should be interpreted, and how outcomes should be interpreted. like i saw a video about card shuffling, and they mentioned that after like 7 shuffles you have a total variation distance of about 0.3 and this is very good, but i have trouble really understanding how good and all it is. so as a clear question: what is total variation distance, and how should it and its results be interpreted.
(of course if any clarification is needed please let me know)
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Card shuffling isn’t really random. Cards can move up or down in position by one
If you give a brand new deck of cards 1 shuffle; you can deduce every cards position after 2 or 3 cards are shown – no randomness achieved
The more times you shuffle the deck the “more random” it becomes. After 7 shuffles the deck is mathematically random in order
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