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When you’re shuffling a deck of cards ... Yannay Khaikin outlines the staggering number of ways a deck of 52 cards can be arranged. But just how staggering are we talking?

Shuffling a pack of ... So how can you make sure your cards are well and truly shuffled? To work out how many ways there are of arranging a standard 52-card deck, we multiply 52 by all the numbers ...

Math — and some clever simulations — have revealed how many shuffles are required to randomize a deck of 52 cards, but there’s a bit more to it than that. There are different shuffling ...

Given a standard 52-card deck, how many possible arrangements of the cards within it are there? Another way to ask this is: If you shuffle a deck of cards, what are the possible number of shuffled ...

A deck of cards may not seem special, and a deck really isn't special until you give it a good shuffle. That is where a deck becomes very special! Mixing up those cards can lead to something ...