Search: id:A024222 Results 1-1 of 1 results found. %I A024222 %S A024222 0,1,2,2,4,4,3,3,6,6,10,10,12,12,4,4,8,8,18,18,6,6,11,11,20,20,18,18, %T A024222 28,28,5,5,10,10,12,12,36,36,12,12,20,20,14,14,12,12,23,23,21,21,8,8, %U A024222 52,52,20,20,18,18,58,58,60,60,6,6,12,12,66,66,22,22,35,35,9,9,20,20 %N A024222 Shuffles (perfect faro shuffles with cut) required to return a deck of size n to original order. %D A024222 Tim Folger, "Shuffling Into Hyperspace," Discover, 1991 (vol 12, no 1), pages 66-67. %D A024222 Martin Gardner, "Card Shuffles," Mathematical Carnival chapter 10, pages 123-138. New York: Vintage Books, 1977. %D A024222 S. Brent Morris, Magic Tricks, Card Shuffling and Dynamic Computer Memories, Math. Assoc. Am., 1998, p. 107. %e A024222 a(52)=8: a deck of size 52 returns to original order in 8 perfect faro shuffles. %Y A024222 A002326 is really the fundamental sequence for this problem. Cf. A024542. %Y A024222 Sequence in context: A128442 A038674 A090277 this_sequence A110545 A104798 A143358 %Y A024222 Adjacent sequences: A024219 A024220 A024221 this_sequence A024223 A024224 A024225 %K A024222 easy,nonn %O A024222 1,3 %A A024222 Enoch Haga (Enokh(AT)comcast.net) Search completed in 0.004 seconds