This might seem hard to believe, but follow the math. Every time you shuffle a deck of cards, you are getting a combination that has never been seen - ever! "52!" means "52 factorial," and that is an unbelievably large number.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoeIllSxpEU
Nalu
Loc: Southern Arizona
That was interesting. Thanks for sharing!
jerryc41 wrote:
This might seem hard to believe, but follow the math. Every time you shuffle a deck of cards, you are getting a combination that has never been seen - ever! "52!" means "52 factorial," and that is an unbelievably large number.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoeIllSxpEUTrying to comprehend all those numbers made my hair hurt!
Is there a term for a number that size? Would that be a bazillion or maybe a gazillion?
PhotogHobbyist wrote:
Is there a term for a number that size? Would that be a bazillion or maybe a gazillion?
Or maybe a bazillion gazillion
Now we're talking some real numbers
jerryc41 wrote:
This might seem hard to believe, but follow the math. Every time you shuffle a deck of cards, you are getting a combination that has never been seen - ever! "52!" means "52 factorial," and that is an unbelievably large number.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoeIllSxpEUActually 80658175170943878571660636856403766975289505440883277824000000000000
And actually, I didn't do the calculation myself. Googled it.
jerryc41 wrote:
This might seem hard to believe, but follow the math. Every time you shuffle a deck of cards, you are getting a combination that has never been seen - ever! "52!" means "52 factorial," and that is an unbelievably large number.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoeIllSxpEUI didn't watch the video so maybe this was discussed in there ?
Anyway the statement isn't quite correct. The laws of chance will also show that it is possible to get the same draw 2 times in a row. Or the same draw maybe 37 shuffles apart so the statement '- ever! ' isn't true.
chrissybabe wrote:
I didn't watch the video so maybe this was discussed in there ?
Anyway the statement isn't quite correct. The laws of chance will also show that it is possible to get the same draw 2 times in a row. Or the same draw maybe 37 shuffles apart so the statement '- ever! ' isn't true.
The point in the video was centered on the odds of shuffling 52 cards and getting all 52 cards in the same order twice.
LDB415
Loc: Houston south suburb
Gigantic number, absolutely. Never before seen, not likely. Being random it is just as likely to match as to not match, if not consecutively then eventually. YMMV
sb
Loc: Florida's East Coast
chrissybabe wrote:
I didn't watch the video so maybe this was discussed in there ?
Anyway the statement isn't quite correct. The laws of chance will also show that it is possible to get the same draw 2 times in a row. Or the same draw maybe 37 shuffles apart so the statement '- ever! ' isn't true.
The comment was regarding getting the same order within a 52 card deck twice in a row. That is kind of like the old expression that having a monkey type at a typewriter for an infinite amount of time, eventually he would type "War and Peace".
PhotogHobbyist wrote:
Is there a term for a number that size?
I hope no one has seen the need to name that.
sb wrote:
That is kind of like the old expression that having a monkey type at a typewriter for an infinite amount of time, eventually he would type "War and Peace".
They tried something similar with a bunch of computers. The computers typed random "words," millions of them, but they didn't even make one sentence. I couldn't find a reference, but here's a link to the monkey.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem
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