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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

if you like big numbers: there are significantly more ways to shuffle a deck of 52 cards than there are atoms in the observable universe.

Every shuffle of the deck is almost certainly unique since folks been shuffling cards.

edit: ahh nice someone posted this exact fact at the top level lower down!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

There are about 8x10^67 ways to shuffle a deck of cards, and about 10^80 atoms in the observable universe, so there are actually far, far more atoms.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

thank you for the correction!