No two card shuffles will EVER be the same.

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02-04-2008, 04:10 PM

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Aliantha

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There are 52! (52 factorial) ways that the first shuffle can come out.

The probability of the second shuffle exactly matching the first is 1/52!.

I don't think this is right. Every one of the 52 cards has 52 possible starting points, so it's actually 1 in 52x52 at least.

I could be wrong though.

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