How to implement a dealer class without storing a deck of cards?

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  Even only 52 cards, the permutationIndex where I describe in Explanations section, would be a huge number; it is

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Not exactly what you are trying to accomplish here, but if you want to deal from a random ordering of a deck of cards, you use a shuffle algorithm. The typical shuffle algorithm is Fisher-Yates. The shuffle algorithm will create an array listing the card numbers in random order ( 13,5,7,18,22,... etc ). To deal you start at the first element in the array and continue forward.