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Every shuffle of a deck of cards is most likely unique (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 8 points 9 months ago (1 child)

Incorrect, if it was a true random shuffle from an already true randomly shuffled deck you are would have these odds or possibly even better since the majority of all shuffles were not random, but if wo could know I think we would be surprised how poorly randomized the average shuffled deck is.

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