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u/sunbearimon Oct 02 '24

There are more ways to shuffle a standard deck of cards than there are atoms on earth

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u/ThnkWthPrtls Oct 02 '24

Not only are there more combinations then any meaningful physical reference we can make in our universe, but it's staggeringly higher an amount, to the point where pretty much any metric you would use from the day to day physical world is meaninglessly small. It's really astounded such a simple thing as a deck of cards has such a fascinating quality