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Permutation Groups · Hard problem

A perfect out-shuffle of an 88-card deck keeps the top and bottom cards in place and interleaves the two halves. For positions 0,…,60,\ldots,6 (indexed from top), the card at position ii moves to position 2i mod 72i \bmod 7; position 77 (bottom) stays fixed. How many out-shuffles return the deck to its original order?