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Originally Posted by pkdk
The computer has memory, it knows to evenly distribute over time to its programming, a deck of cards has no memory, it does what it wants over time .
Finally - we've gotten to the heart of all of this, and it took almost 1000 posts (maybe more by the time I submit this). This is the perceived difference that accounts for all of these seemingly absurd questions. If, indeed, the computer were programmed to keep track of all of its deals and make sure that it evened things out with respect to which cards were selected in each order, then they wouldn't be coming out randomly, and there would be a problem.
But this just isn't how the randomization of cards works. Each shuffled deck is completely independent of each other, and they don't need to keep track of everything to make sure there is an equal distribution. The simple act of doing this a large number of times is what makes things come out with an equal distribution. Exactly the way a deck of cards works - the cards will come out randomly, and if you shuffle and deal them a large number of times, each card will be first off the deck about 1 out of every 52 times (and ditto for every other position off the deck). In this way, an array of a large number of cards dealt by hand will resemble an array of a large number of cards dealt by computer.