A whole lot of possibility. In one little deck.
Shuffle 52 cards and you’ll probably get an order no one has ever seen before. I made 52factorial to play with that idea. Browse the possibilities, try a random shuffle, and take a little detour through just how big 52! really is.
Give it a shuffleEvery shuffle has a place
Start with an ordered deck and scroll through its neighbours. Each row is a different way to arrange the same 52 cards.
See where you land
Hit Shuffle to jump somewhere in the list. Your result gets a little mark in this enormous space of possibilities.
Got a few trillion years?
Imagine counting down from 52! seconds. A walk around the Earth is only the beginning of this rather leisurely journey.
No maths homework. Just a bit of curiosity.