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Regarding cards, I've often wondered, if you factor in the birthday paradox, whether it is likely that any shuffled deck of cards has come out the same as a pre
by mistercow 13y ago
Regarding cards, I've often wondered, if you factor in the birthday paradox, whether it is likely that any shuffled deck of cards has come out the same as a previous shuffled deck. I have not wondered hard enough about this to actually do the math, however.
- wisty 13y agoIt's still quite unlikely. You could look at the reasoning behind ZFS and git using SHA-256 hashes to de-dupe data. With 256 bits in the sample space, you it takes an unimaginable amount of effort to find any collisions (unless the hash has a weakness).