Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱1d ago

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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@bytebro

Just don't listen to the magicians.

They'll tell you that certain shuffles, properly executed, will always yield the same ordering. The name is 'faro', 'perfect', or 'weave'.

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Mar 21 at 10:33pmWeb
Show threadBytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱1d ago

@JdeBP

Back in my eminently mis-spent youth, I used to be able to fake a shuffle from a pre-laid deck and get exactly the hand I wanted, at least in the presence of non-cynical newbies.

Fortunately I grew out of such dangerous pastimes, and discovered computers instead (-:

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@bytebro

Shades of #KostyaKimlat, who practiced for decades before trying to fool Penn and Teller by simple dint of just doing exactly the almost impossible feat xe said xe was going to do in the patter, without any tricks.

https://youtube.com/v/Lx1P1YA2rlA

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Penn & Teller Fool Us: Kostya Kimlat's IMPOSSIBLE Card Trick // Season 5

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@bytebro

If you like that, you'll love the first #KostyaKimlat #FoolUs attempt.

Xe took a trick that Penn and Teller had performed themselves on national telly only weeks before, and that they thought they knew upside down and backwards, it also being a classic trick commonly-known by card magicians; and came up with a mindblowingly skilled way of doing it.

Watching the performance a second time, you can spot the points where both Penn and Teller realize that they've been caught on the wrong foot. And it's literally done right under Penn's nose, which is even part of the cleverness of the trick. Kimlat designed in the fact that xe was going to perform to these two.

https://youtube.com/v/MuKail7Jwwg

https://youtube.com/v/SCFXV6o7cro?lc=UgyhehHF9YBGFe4d93d4AaABAg

https://youtube.com/v/49CSV2w0i0g

#CardMagic #RoadrunnerCull #Triumph

Penn Talks About Being Fooled by Kostya Kimlat on Fool Us

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