πŸ‘½ martin

πŸƒ Here's a fun one for you.

Take a deck of cards. Shuffle them randomly. There's no chance any human alive (or ever alive) has seen the sequence of cards you just made.

The maths: number of combinations of 52 unique cards = 52! = 8Γ—10⁢⁷ (more than the total atoms on earth)

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πŸ‘½ martin

@yamato Most common is the "riffle" shuffle. Performed around 7 times, this gets you to the number above in terms of probabilities. If you want the math, go wild: https://chance.dartmouth.edu/teaching_aids/books_articles/Mann.pdf Β· 4 months ago

https://chance.dartmouth.edu/teaching_aids/books_articles/Mann.pdf