Every well-shuffled deck of cards is in a unique order

The number of possible permutations for card order in a standard deck of playing cards, 52! (52 factorial, or 52x51x50x49 . . . all the way down to x1), is staggeringly large. How large? Yannay Khaikin, who created this lovely video explaining the concept, says it’s this large: Any time you pick up a well […]

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