In fact, 99.999999% is an extremely low estimate. The number of ways that a deck of cards can be shuffled is 52! Which is equal to 8065817517094387857166063685640376697528950544088327782400000000000 possibilities.

If you shuffled cards every second from the birth of the universe until now, you still wouldn’t even come close (statistically) to getting the same arrangement twice.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42773245

  • violentfart@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Since cards start in order and the majority of shuffling is done the same method, there will be a bell curve of repeated combinations.

  • vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    01·
    17 days ago

    This isn’t true in practice since we don’t shuffle cards well enough for it to be true but at least this isn’t AI Slop haha.

  • stupidcasey@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Incorrect, if it was a true random shuffle from an already true randomly shuffled deck you are would have these odds or possibly even better since the majority of all shuffles were not random, but if wo could know I think we would be surprised how poorly randomized the average shuffled deck is.