If you shuffle a deck of cards properly

[dasherHampton]

you have an almost certain chance of getting an order that has never happened before, in all of the card games that have ever occurred.

I read one of those "amazing facts" articles and that kind of blew my mind.

 

[IronWing]

52!

 

[Captante]

you have an almost certain chance of getting an order that has never happened before, in all of the card games that have ever occurred.

I read one of those "amazing facts" articles and that kind of blew my mind.

Considering how many decks of cards are shuffled say just in Vegas in one day for example I find this very difficult to believe.

 

[IronWing]

Considering how many decks of cards are shuffled say just in Vegas in one day for example I find this very difficult to believe.

52! = 80658175170943878571660636856403766975289505440883277824000000000000

 

[Captante]

52! = 8.0658175e+67

Went over my head sorry ... math-challenged here.

I'd have to go with cards having been shuffled millions of times since they were invented no? If so my guess is most if not all possible combo's have come up at least once.

52! = 80658175170943878571660636856403766975289505440883277824000000000000

That IS however a truly huge number!

 

[IronWing]

Went over my head sorry ... math-challenged here.

I'd have to go with cards having been shuffled millions of times since they were invented no? If so my guess is most if not all possible combo's have come up at least once.

That IS however a truly huge number!

An estimated 100 billion people have ever lived. If each person spent every living second shuffling decks and got good at it so they could generate a new shuffle for every second of their 79 years (current life expectancy), the number of permutations available in a card deck would be 3.23532E+47 times greater than the number of permutations generated by all those people.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

An estimated 100 billion people have ever lived. If each person spent every living second shuffling decks and got good at it so they could generate a new shuffle for every second of their 79 years (current life expectancy), the number of permutations available in a card deck would be 3.23532E+47 times greater than the number of permutations generated by all those people.

The Maths, how does it do it?

 

[HomerJS]

Went over my head sorry ... math-challenged here.

I'd have to go with cards having been shuffled millions of times since they were invented no? If so my guess is most if not all possible combo's have come up at least once.





That IS however a truly huge number!

Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugge!

 

[OccamsToothbrush]

The Maths, how does it do it?

It doesn't. People just make up answers because they know nobody is going to do the math to check.

 

[Tweak155]

Interesting fact.

 

[sandorski]

Witchcraft!

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

It doesn't. People just make up answers because they know nobody is going to do the math to check.

What is really huge in terms of numbers is how many possible variations and states there can be before causally linked space must repeat. I mean zero particles to jam packed with all the possible states and particle combinations.

I don't remember the number but it's friggin huge, and IF the universe is infinite, there must be an infinite number of ones with an identical numbers of each of us doing all possible things.

Weird.

 

[IronWing]

It doesn't. People just make up answers because they know nobody is going to do the math to check.

<slap, slap, drops gauntlet>

 

[sdifox]

80,658,175,170,943,876,845,634,591,553,351,679,477,960,544,579,306,048,386,139,594,686,464

 

[thestrangebrew1]

Ever since I lost part of my thumb I can't shuffle for @#$% so -1 of whatever.

 

[IronWing]

80,658,175,170,943,876,845,634,591,553,351,679,477,960,544,579,306,048,386,139,594,686,464

Unpossible.

 

[shortylickens]

Interesting fact.

No, it isnt.
Its a bullshit interpretation of statistics and probability. Its also a major logical fallacy.

Just because something CAN be different does not automatically mean it WILL be different.

And like most logical fallacies, it gets passed around a lot by ignorant people who think they're wise.

 

[sdifox]

Unpossible.

Your math is weak.

 

[IronWing]

Your math is weak.

Your math is wrong.

 

[sdifox]

Your math is wrong.

Your trailing zeroes should have clued you in...you got rounded...

 

[IronWing]

Your trailing zeroes should have clued you in...you got rounded...

Your lack of trailing zeros shows your error. Trailing zeros first appear with 5! and gain in abundance as the number grows.

 

[Atreus21]

A more confusing question would be how to determine the probability of arriving at a unique combination.

 

[IronWing]

A more confusing question would be how to determine the probability of arriving at a unique combination.

1/52!

 

[zinfamous]

52! = 80658175170943878571660636856403766975289505440883277824000000000000

Yeah, well, I don't believe you.

 

[IronWing]

Yeah, well, I don't believe you.

What is this, a hydra of dickheads?