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Old 12-28-2009, 05:16 PM   #79
Flint
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No two card shuffles will ever be the same.

Combinations of card shuffles, 52! is 8.06581751709439e+67.

Population of the Earth (possible number of people that could shuffle a deck of cards) is 6,648,429,413. That’s 1.2131914195137428317011748952143e+58 shuffles per person.

Divide 1.2131914195137428317011748952143e+58 shuffles by number of seconds per year (31536000) and you get 3.8470047549268861989509604744239e+50.

That means: if every person alive on the Earth started shuffling one deck of cards per second, it would take 3.8470047549268861989509604744239e+50 years to get through all the combinations.
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