Posts tagged ‘shuffle’
Shuffling Playing Cards Produces Order Never Seen Before
By Chad Upton | Editor
When you finish a game of cards, you must shuffle the deck (imperfectly) seven times before the card order is properly randomized again. Then, it’s also statistically impossible that order of cards has ever occurred before!
Because a deck of cards has 52 unique cards, the number of different orders of those cards is astronomical and I mean that rather literally. The combinations of cards is greater than the number of observable stars in the galaxy. (more…)
Broken Secrets 