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A small tangent over to describing how many different permutations you can have with deck of cards

Taken from https://czep.net/weblog/52cards.html

So, just how large is it? Let's try to wrap our puny human brains around the magnitude of this number with a fun little theoretical exercise. Start a timer that will count down the number of seconds from 52! to 0. We're going to see how much fun we can have before the timer counts down all the way.



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