Mastodawn

OK, I just *may* have partaken of a little of the Devil's Cabbage this evening so forgive me, but still...

TIL that every time you shuffle[1] a deck of regular playing cards, it is very likely that no other deck of cards in the history of the world has ever been in that exact arrangement before[2].

1. Shuffle them well. And again. Etc.
2. Edit! Apparently of the order of 10^^68 possible arrangements. Again, I may be wrong!

Math-heads and statisticians will now either tell me to smoke less, or that I'm quite right. Either would be an acceptable outcome!

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Bob Young Mar 21

@bytebro
52! (i.e., 52 factorial, which is 52 x 51 x 50 ... x 1), equals 8.06581752 x 10^67 or 8 times (10 raised to the 67th power). I hadn't thought about it before, but it's quite possibly true.

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Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱

@fifonetworks

I really appreciate the math clarification - that makes sense, so thank you.

I'm loving the whole thing about "no other deck of cards *ever* has been in this order before!" which is probably kind of hard to get anyone's head around...