Shuffle a deck. Make history.

Ever shuffled a deck of cards? You've likely created an order that's never existed before. Anywhere. Ever.

Seriously.

The number of ways to arrange 52 cards is so mind-bogglingly vast that every thorough shuffle is almost certainly a cosmic first. It's a number with 68 digits!

To be precise...

+80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000.

Imagine the Roman Colosseum, packed with 60,000 people. Every person has a button. Each time someone presses their button, a shared counter ticks up by one. If everyone presses their button once per second—nonstop—it would still take 426,275,659 × 10^55 years to count all the way to 52 factorial.

Don't believe it? Go ahead and try!

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