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User avatar #13 - schmitty (01/23/2013) [-]
The one about the deck of cards is false. There is a set number of cards and therefore a set number of combinations in which they can be ordered. Thus, despite the fact that it is an incredibly large number, all combinations of cards that can be arranged in a deck have been seen at least once around the world.
User avatar #16 to #13 - awesomealexak (01/23/2013) [-]
There are 80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,827,000,0 00,000,000 (52!) different ways you can arrange a deck of cards, and according to probabilities, many different possible ways to arrange cards have not been seen.
User avatar #33 to #16 - ttotheroll (01/23/2013) [-]
And if you got the jokers (average 3 jokers per deck), 55 cards

55*54*53*52*51*50*49*48*47*46*45*44*43*42*41*40*39*38*37*36*35*34*33*32*31*30*29 *28*27*26*25*24*23*22*21*20*19*18*17*16*15*14*13*12*11*10*9*8*7*6*5*4*3*2*1 = 12'696'403'353'658'275'925'965'100'847'566'516'959'580'321'051'449'436'762'275'8 40'000'000'000'000 different ways to arrange a deck of cards
User avatar #30 to #16 - rlybad (01/23/2013) [-]
User avatar #17 to #16 - schmitty (01/23/2013) [-]
Playing cards have been around for over a millennium, since early China. Are you saying that in all those years and all the people around the world who play cards and shuffle cards, that not once has a pattern been repeated or a specific order been already played?
User avatar #28 to #17 - giguelingueling (01/23/2013) [-]
I Think you don't understand how huge this number is.


Let's say there's a deck of card shuffled every 0.000 000 000 000 1 seconde (which is a fuck load more then the reality (and by a fuck load, I mean a huge fucking fuck load more)

now it would mean that in 1 sec we would have seen 1 000 000 000 000 possibility, in 1 hours : 3 600 000 000 000 000

in 1 years : 31 536 000 000 000 000 000

in 13,77 billions years(which is the estimate age of the universe) : 434 250 720 000 000 000 000 000 000 000

So if from the very beginning of the universe a deck of card was shuffle every 0.000 000 000 000 1 second, assuming that their was never two deck of card in the exact same combination, we would have seen : 434 250 720 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 possibility, which is approximately: 0,000 000 54% of all the possibility
#174 to #28 - schmitty (01/24/2013) [-]
Well shit, guess I was wrong.
#36 to #28 - autoxx (01/23/2013) [-]
I just came and now I need new pants... Damn you and your sexy maths.
User avatar #37 to #36 - came (01/23/2013) [-]
I am came and I can confirm his pants are in a state
#38 to #37 - autoxx (01/23/2013) [-]
We meet again my messy nemesis...

Oh who am I kidding, I'm always happy when you show up!
User avatar #27 to #17 - awesomealexak (01/23/2013) [-]
I didn't say that not once has a pattern been played, but rather that there is a high probability of arranging a deck as no one has ever seen. there is still a probability of arranging the deck in a way that has been played before, but the chance of that happening isn't as great as the chance of arranging a deck in a whole new way.
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