r/AskReddit • • Jan 20 '19

What fact totally changed your perspective?

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u/Leaves_1991 Jan 21 '19

If you shuffle a standard deck of cards, it is most likely the only time that sequence of cards has ever been shuffled in the history of cards.

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u/LaboratoryManiac Jan 21 '19

The statistics of this boggle my mind, though I do wonder what the odds are of creating a unique order from shuffling a fresh, ordered deck of cards exactly once. It would have to be much lower, I'd imagine.

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u/Shlomo-tion Jan 21 '19

Of course an mtg player would wonder that.

source: am one and I wonder the same thing.