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Gilbreath Principle

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Gilbreath Principle is the fact that when a sequence (which may or may not be a repeating sequence) is riffle shuffled into its reverse, there are certain properties of the mixed outcome that are mathematically guaranteed.

The observation was analyzed and documented by Norman Gilbreath.