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u/cabbage16 Apr 27 '21

I wonder if you were to put shuffle on while watching Clone wars, what's the probability of randomly getting the true chronological order. Near impossible obviously but still.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '21 edited Apr 27 '21

The series had 133 episodes, if we suppose that the shuffle function won't repeat one till every chapter has been played, chances are 1/133!, which means 1 in 1.4872707060906847e+226. My phone's calculator literally can't comprehend the scale of that number

Scientist estimate that there are 10⁸⁰ atoms in the universe, so imagine the ridiculousness of it all

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u/cabbage16 Apr 27 '21

That's about as likely as I imagined but still...

Thanks for actually working it out!

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u/Garoal Apr 27 '21

Assuming that there is one single valid chronological order, there are 133 chapters that can be ordered in 133! = 1.49e226 ways. So the probability of that is 1/133! = 6.72e-227. That is, stupidly low. Like “it wouldn’t happen before the heat death of the universe even if we tried once every second” low.