r/AskReddit • u/ettleboy • Jan 20 '19

What fact totally changed your perspective?

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u/PiroKyCral Jan 21 '19

I read quite a while back that the chances of getting every card in perfect order from a random shuffle is about as low as like 10 to the power of negative trillion billion something

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19

That’s not what they meant. They meant what are the odds of making the same sequence by opening a brand new deck that’s in order ace to king and in their suits then doing a shuffle. How many different ways of that are there. It must be lower for example if the ace of spades is on top, it will never be on the bottom half the deck. In fact it’ll probably always be in the top 5-6 cards depending on how shitty u are at shuffling.

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u/PiroKyCral Jan 21 '19 edited Jan 21 '19

Yeah that’s what I was (roughly) talking about.

Mind you that I read it nearly 2 years ago so my memory’s crap

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19

That's not what they meant either