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by andrewla 2149 days ago
I don't think the arrangements are equiprobable. Well-distributed, likely.

Heuristically, there are a finite number of outputs of a riffle shuffle (probably fairly large; basically the number of different ways that you can clump cards together, 52^20 or thereabouts). But any finite number of outputs raised to the 7th power is not going to divide 52 factorial, in terms of the number of output possibilities.