In fact, 99.999999% is an extremely low estimate. The number of ways that a deck of cards can be shuffled is 52! Which is equal to 8065817517094387857166063685640376697528950544088327782400000000000 possibilities.

If you shuffled cards every second from the birth of the universe until now, you still wouldn’t even come close (statistically) to getting the same arrangement twice.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42773245

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[–] 24 points 9 months ago* (6 children)

Or you could go with it either is or it isn't, that way it's 50%.
That's the principle I use for gambling, although for some reason I've had an insanely long streak of bad luck?
/s 😂

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Don't stop now. You're obviously due for an equally long winning streak. Isn't that how it works?

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

    Yes. It's called gambler's fellacy because it leads to free blowjobs.

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