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OT: No Two Shuffles Alike.... No Two Snowflakes Alike?

RutgersMO

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Considering the sheer number of snowflakes that fall & have fallen worldwide since time immemorial, I don't think this premise is correct.

Similar to the statement that shuffling a deck of cards will produce an almost infinite # of arrangements. I believe there is a number of finite arrangements to the 52 card deck, though the number is immense:
8×10^67 (8 with 67 '0's after it), essentially meaning that a randomly shuffled deck has never been seen before and will never be seen again.

But like a true Rutgers fan, I believe there is a CHANCE!

Happy Holidays!

MO
 
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A fun bet to make is to give someone the 13 cards of a suit and give them as many attempts as they want to shuffle the cards in order, A to K. The odds of any one shuffle coming in order are 6.2 billion to one.
 
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