> …an ordering that has likely never existed before. In other words, it’s unlikely you’ll ever shuffle two decks the same.
This is an understatement. In fact it is virtually certain that no two shuffled decks of 52 cards have ever been in the same order, across all history. That’s how big 52! is. In fact, to get a 50% chance of any two shuffles matching, you’d need to shuffle a billion decks of cards every second for 4x10e17 years.
This is an understatement. In fact it is virtually certain that no two shuffled decks of 52 cards have ever been in the same order, across all history. That’s how big 52! is. In fact, to get a 50% chance of any two shuffles matching, you’d need to shuffle a billion decks of cards every second for 4x10e17 years.