From KnowlegeNuts:
The standard 52-card deck has been around for 500 years or more. What is rather unbelievable is that there are so many possible arrangements of the cards, it is statistically unlikely that any two have ever repeated in all of history.
There are in fact 80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000 arrangements.
The above number, while impossible to get your head around in any conventional manner, is 52 factorial, the possible orders of a shuffled deck. While enormous, the number is rather simply arrived at, by multiplying 52 down to 1 (52 x 51 x 50 . . . ). There are more possible arrangements of cards than there are atoms on Earth.
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Given the hands I always get in Poker I find this highly dubious.
Impressive a number as that may be, how many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?
Three.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvFzOgK-V9E
That’s simply not true. Every time I open a new deck of cards, it’s in the same order as every other deck I’ve purchased. What are the chances of that?
Which, coincidentally, is the exact number of excuses the Democrats offer for previous failures of their socialist agenda ideas.