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

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    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 😂