Cards vs Atoms
Are there more possible ways to shuffle a pack of cards than atoms on Earth?
“There are more possible ways to shuffle a pack of cards than atoms on Earth”
Recipe to calculate all combinations of a deck of cards
First, let’s calculate how many ways are to shuffle cards.
INGREDIENTS
A standard deck of 52 cards.
PREPARATION
Simple, if you were to shuffle a deck of cards every second since the beginning of the universe (which is estimated to be around 13.8 billion years ago), you would still not have even scratched the surface of all the possible shuffles.
To make it easy, we use math.
There are
80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824, 000,000,000
possible ways to shuffle a deck of cards
But, does that number even compare to all atoms on Earth?
Recipe to calculate Earth’s total atoms
INGREDIENTS
Know the mass of Earth.
The percentage of the main elements.
Find the mass of each element.
PREPARATION
Is not that simple, Earth is a moving chaos, always changing, but we can make an approximate.
We use some math and science to solve this.
There are
133,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
atoms on Earth
Who’s the winner?
There are way more shuffles than atoms.
Is hard to even imagine these kinds of numbers without doubting the purpose of your existence.
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