Take a deck of cards and shuffle it with reckless abandon. Cut, riffle, and cut again-the more chaotic, the better. Now, gaze upon the resulting arrangement, an unpredictable set of cards. This precise sequence of cards will never be seen again.
If you had been shuffling this deck non-stop since the big bang, dealing a fresh hand every second, you would still be lightyears away from replicating this exact combination. Leap forward to a distant future, where the sun has exhausted its fuel and the earth is a distant memory. You are left alone, floating in a spacecraft, still shuffling with obsessive regularity, yet the probability of duplicating his hand remains very small.
What is 52 factorial?In simple terms, a factorial represents the number of possible combinations with a set of integers. It is calculated by multiplying all positive integers up to a given number.
For a standard deck of 52 cards, we are dealing with 52 factorials (52!) This means multiplying all integers from 1 to 52:
