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Every shuffle of a deck of cards is most likely unique (infosec.pub)
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In fact, 99.999999% is an extremely low estimate. The number of ways that a deck of cards can be shuffled is 52! Which is equal to 8065817517094387857166063685640376697528950544088327782400000000000 possibilities.

If you shuffled cards every second from the birth of the universe until now, you still wouldn’t even come close (statistically) to getting the same arrangement twice.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42773245

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[–] Klear@quokk.au 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Yes. It's called gambler's fellacy because it leads to free blowjobs.

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Back in my day, all you got was free drinks!

[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

First the bartenders want tips, now they want the free drink? Straight from my body?

[–] sepi@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago

It's because you get them from your fellas?