Any time you pick up a well shuffled deck, you are almost certainly holding an arrangement of cards that has never before existed and will likely never exist again. - Yannay Khaikinpic.twitter.com/afOpu0y7qA
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Suppose a new permutation of 52 cards was drawn every second starting from The Big Bang (13.8 billion years ago) You wouldn't even be close • To count out all 52! permutations you would need 10⁵¹ ages of the universepic.twitter.com/7jhybDU59I
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Here's my definition of a "well shuffled" deck (1) Throw all the cards up in the air (2) Now pick them up
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Since people seem enjoy this, here's a short list I came up with • Everything on this list has roughly the same probability as two randomly shuffled decks being in identical orderpic.twitter.com/d297Cddboj
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Wouldn't you have a cluster in the middle that reflects each card's original deck position?
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not if you throw it hard enough .. and maybe from a jet plane
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I did but I always get the same result Do I have to take them out of the box or...?
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I think that makes it 52! * 2^52
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I'd add "from 100 thousand feet" just to be sure.
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@numberphile, from@BradyHaran , has a series of videos on this question!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxJubaijQbI …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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But of course eight perfect shuffles returns a deck to its original order. It’s amazing how so much randomness and so much order exist side by side.
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Wait what ? explain the first part
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