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r/Showerthoughts • u/Vitolar8 • 10d ago
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There are billions of people on earth and only 52 cards in a deck, and yet, whenever you shuffle a deck, it is probably in a brand new order. There are more than 52 words in any language, I bet it stands.
2 u/TBNRhash 10d ago The difference is that language is ordered and not random while card shuffling is completely randomised. 4 u/Dawn_of_an_Era 10d ago There are far more unique logical sentences than there are ways to shuffle a deck, though. 3 u/TheDevourer0fTacos 10d ago plus so many people speak with bad grammar or incoherently so the number of possibly uttered sentences is even higher
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The difference is that language is ordered and not random while card shuffling is completely randomised.
4 u/Dawn_of_an_Era 10d ago There are far more unique logical sentences than there are ways to shuffle a deck, though. 3 u/TheDevourer0fTacos 10d ago plus so many people speak with bad grammar or incoherently so the number of possibly uttered sentences is even higher
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There are far more unique logical sentences than there are ways to shuffle a deck, though.
3 u/TheDevourer0fTacos 10d ago plus so many people speak with bad grammar or incoherently so the number of possibly uttered sentences is even higher
plus so many people speak with bad grammar or incoherently so the number of possibly uttered sentences is even higher
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u/Dawn_of_an_Era 10d ago
There are billions of people on earth and only 52 cards in a deck, and yet, whenever you shuffle a deck, it is probably in a brand new order. There are more than 52 words in any language, I bet it stands.