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  • hardcoreufo@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    There are 8.0658*10^67 orders you can shuffle a card deck in.

    The math is easy. It’s just 52! if your calculator has that function which is really 525150…32*1. There are 52 possibilities for the first card 51 for the second since you’ve already used one card and so on.

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      4 days ago

      For those who are confused, the comment meant to say

      52*51*50*....*3*2*1

      i.e. 52 × 51 × 50 × … × 3 × 2 × 1

      Markdown syntax screwed it up.