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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
by redundantly 2y 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObiqJzfyACM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObiqJzfyACM
That example starts 16 minutes into the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObiqJzfyACM&t=964s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObiqJzfyACM&t=964s
But it's worth watching the whole thing.
- jvanderbot 2y agoYes! Nice find thank you.
- tempestn 2y agoAnd 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.
- jvanderbot 2y agoI found a text version of the same (?) thing: https://czep.net/weblog/52cards.html https://czep.net/weblog/52cards.html