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Seven Shuffles to Random: The Wild Origin Story Behind Today's Smart Tech
A century-old math feud in Russia birthed Markov chains and Monte Carlo—ideas behind Google’s PageRank, nuclear simulations, language prediction, and why seven riffle shuffles “randomizes” a deck. Here’s the wild, human story behind the math that runs our world.

Sep 5, 2025

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