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No One Has Ever Held This Deck
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Shuffle a deck of cards properly, and you've probably just made an order no one has ever held before.
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A deck has 52 cards. The number of ways to arrange them is 52 factorial.
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That's roughly an 8 followed by 67 zeros.
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The universe is only about 4 times 10 to the 17 seconds old.
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If someone had shuffled a deck every second since the Big Bang, they'd have barely scratched the surface.
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So that messy shuffle in your hands is almost certainly one of a kind.
