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To: liliesgrandpa

I'm curious. If you deal every card in a deck of playing cards out in front of you, what are the odds of you dealing the exact sequence of cards you end up with? Funny thing, those probabilities.


33 posted on 12/05/2005 5:10:01 AM PST by RogueIsland
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To: RogueIsland; liliesgrandpa
If you deal every card in a deck of playing cards out in front of you, what are the odds of you dealing the exact sequence of cards you end up with? Funny thing, those probabilities.

52! ~ 8.065 x 1067.

Of course that's only one deck, dealt one time.

216 posted on 12/05/2005 11:24:20 AM PST by dread78645 (Sorry Mr. Franklin, We couldn't keep it.)
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