How Many Ways Can You Arrange A Deck Of Cards?

How many ways can you arrange a deck of cards? Yannay Khaikin explains the mind-boggling math.

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One deck. Fifty-two cards. How many arrangements? Let’s put it this way: Any time you pick up a well shuffled deck, you are almost certainly holding an arrangement of cards that has never before existed and might not exist again. Yannay Khaikin explains how factorials allow us to pinpoint the exact (very large) number of permutations in a standard deck of cards.

 

Joke Of The Day: Numbers

Rubber ChickenThe teacher asked little Johnny if he knows his numbers.

“Yes,” he said. “I do. My father taught me.”

“Good. What comes after three.”

“Four,” answers the boy.

“What comes after six?” “Seven.”

“Very good,” says the teacher. “Your dad did a good job. What comes after ten?”

“A Jack.”

 

 

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