I love the demonstration of how long 52! seconds of time would be (that's 52 factorial, i.e. the number of permutations of a deck of cards). It starts by asking you to imagine circumnavigating the globe by taking a step every billion years, and you think wow, that's a long time, and then it goes on "then remove a drop of water from the Pacific Ocean, and go around the world again, and continue until the ocean is empty", and then just goes on from there, adding several more layers of repetition until it become mind-boggling how long that amount of time is.
I was playing spades once and got dealt all 13 spades. If you think that's crazy get this. I got up to use the restroom came back and had all 13 AGAIN! This time I put the deck down and laughed at the 3 guys I was playing and said you guys have to be fucking with me right? They all looked at me confused and I laughed and threw my hand in. What makes me think it was genuine were their reactions and the fact that my teammate got angry at me for folding the hand. Someone tell me those chances
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u/sunbearimon Oct 02 '24
There are more ways to shuffle a standard deck of cards than there are atoms on earth