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  81067 permutations of a deck of 52 cards (52!). The modern deck of cards as we know it was invented in 1480. There are approximately 1.61010 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  81062 shuffles to date or approximately 51052 shuffles per second. Not even Vegas can shuffle that fast.

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