Sunday, 13 August 2017

If you properly shuffle a deck of cards, in all likelihood, the resulting deck has never been seen before in the history of the world.

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There are approximately  8∗1067 permutations of a deck of 52 cards (52!). The modern deck of cards as we know it was invented in 1480. There are approximately 1.6∗1010 seconds between now and then. In order for there to even be a 0.001% chance of a random shuffle to have been seen before, the world would have needed to have generated  8∗1062 shuffles to date or approximately 5∗1052 shuffles per second. Not even Vegas can shuffle that fast.

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