Comment by redundantly

1 year ago

The number you're thinking of is 52! (52 factorial) and how long it would take for 52! seconds to pass by.

Vsauce has a great video on this, and might be where that example was taken from.

That example starts 16 minutes into the video:

But it's worth watching the whole thing.

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redundantly

And that number is relevant because it's the number of possible ordering of a standard deck of 52 cards. There are... a lot of them.

I found a text version of the same (?) thing: https://czep.net/weblog/52cards.html

Yes! Nice find thank you.