12 November 2012

The chances that anyone has ever shuffled a pack of cards in the same way twice in the history of the world are infinitesimally small, statistically speaking. The number of possible permutations of 52 cards is ‘52 factorial’ otherwise known as 52! or 52 shriek. This is 52 times 51 times 50 . . . all the way down to one. Here's what that looks like:

80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000.

 

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

http://ww3.tvo.org/video/173822/secret-life-chaos

greg oakes said...

that was informative :)

greg oakes said...

ps. good post anonymous "...an unexpected relationship between order and chaos" :)

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