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intrasight • today at 3:10 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

There are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards than there are atoms in the visible universe.


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amelius • today at 3:56 PM

There are more ways to configure a single atom than there are card shuffles of a single deck.

smokel • today at 3:20 PM

A typical grain of sand contains in the order of hundreds of quadrillions of atoms. A deck of cards can be encoded in 226 bits per deck, so one could encode in the order of a quadrillion decks of cards in a single grain of sand!

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