Monday, March 31, 2014

Shufflin' along here boss

Res Ipsa Loquitur


Every time you pick up a well shuffled deck, you are almost certainly holding an arrangement of cards that have never before existed in all of history.



 There are 80,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000 (67 zeros) ways to arrange a deck of 52 cards

I bet that doesn't hold true if a computer does the shuffling, unless someone has come up with a reliable random number algorithm.  At any rate, that is a mind-blower. 
cuzzin ricky

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

That should be shown to get welfare. If they don't understand it, they must be neutered!
Tim

Anonymous said...

Next lesson in the series

0!=1

Yep - zero factorial =1

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drew458 said...

Pretty neat lesson in slightly advanced math.

Tomorrow let's sum up large groups of neighboring integers using good old Sigma(1..n) = n(n-1)/2

Anonymous said...

Next logical step would be to calculate the odds of winning a lottery - in otherwords, how to determine "how many ways can you pick 6 numbers from 49 numbers" or whatever the exact form of the lottery is.

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