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A standard deck of 52 unique cards can be arranged in 52! (52 factorial) different orders.

That's:80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000

Or roughly 8.0658 × 10⁶⁷

A standard deck of 52 unique cards can be arranged in 52! (52 factorial) different orders. That's:80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000 Or roughly 8.0658 × 10⁶⁷
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False. Yes it's improbable to get the exact same shuffle, but it could happen being as a fresh pack of cards is always the same order. One shuffle would be significantly higher odds. 3 shuffles, a cut, and a shuffle... Well I'm no mathemagician.

Still, it would be a pretty good magic trick to go over the odds and shuffle two decks to the same order.

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it could happen being as a fresh pack of cards is always the same order

Yes this is the common caveat. The logic assumes the deck has already been shuffled.

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8.0658 × 10⁶⁷

Just slightly less than the amount of jewish faggotry in congress.

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But, but, but I was told that bacteria randomly rearranged its dna to become a monkey. The permutation of that event is statistically impossible. Therefore, I will disregard the math and pretend it doesn't exist in order to maintain my opinion on evolution.

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80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000 is the combinations from a starting value of 52. The starting value of bacteria is approximately 5,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Each slightly mutate through their fast lived generations. Mutations may, or may not be useful as seen in subsequent generations.

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So you're telling me there's a chance?

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Selective breeding is a type of short term controlled evolution that we have done with all sorts of both plants and animals. It isn't a stretch to realize that over the course of millions of years, due to environmental reasons or random mutation, you can wind up with vastly different varieties of life forms.

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I would say the laws of randomness say this isn't true. There have been billions of decks of cards shuffled over hundreds of years. There is just no way possible that no two decks have ever ended up in the same order.

However, Grok has explained to me in great detail that I am wrong. Its actually quite mind blowing.

TIL, eh?

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I didn't believe it at first either.

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Strange how sleight of hand artists can shuffle a deck and then you pick a card that they want you to pick.

How’s that work with your 6 grizillion combos?