{"id":20,"date":"2019-12-01T05:45:46","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T05:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opalgames.com\/blog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2019-12-01T05:48:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T05:48:11","slug":"about-card-shuffling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opalgames.com\/blog\/about-card-shuffling\/","title":{"rendered":"About Card Shuffling"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Card Shuffling<\/h2>\n<h3>Every time you shuffle a deck of cards that combination of cards has likely never existed before!<\/h3>\n<h4>The number of possible card shuffles is:<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>52! = 8.06581752 \u00d7 10^67 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;q=52!\">google calculate this<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>If you shuffled a deck of cards every second for a million years you would only get 3.1556926 \u00d7 10^13 combinations<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>31,556,926 second in a year<\/p>\n<p>31,556,926 * 1,000,000 = 3.1556926 \u00d7 10^13<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>If you shuffled a deck of cards every mili-second (1,000 times a second) for a trillion years (longer than the earth is estimated to have existed) you would only get 3.1556926 \u00d7 10^22 combinations. That&#8217;s not even .01 percent of the total possible shuffles.<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>1,000 milliseconds in a second<\/p>\n<p>31 556 926 000 milliseconds in year<\/p>\n<p>1,000,000,000,000 * 31556926000 = 3.1556926 \u00d7 10^22<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>If the entire human race shuffled a deck of cards every millisecond for 1 trillion years there would only be 2.11652087 \u00d7 10^32. That&#8217;s\u00a0still\u00a0not even .01 percent of the total possible shuffles.<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>world population: 6,706,993,152<\/p>\n<p>6,706,993,152 * 1,000,000,000,000 * 31,556,926,000 = 2.11652087 \u00d7 10^32<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>If the entire human race shuffled a deck of cards every millisecond for 100 quattuordecillion years there would be 2.11652087 \u00d7 10^67 different shuffles<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>10^47 years = 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (100 quattuordecillion )<\/p>\n<p>100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 * 6,706,993,152 * 31,556,926,000 = 2.11652087 \u00d7 10^67<\/p>\n<p>Then you would be at about 25% of all possible shuffles!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>Names for big numbers<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>thousand<\/li>\n<li>million<\/li>\n<li>billion<\/li>\n<li>trillion<\/li>\n<li>quadrillion<\/li>\n<li>quintillion<\/li>\n<li>sextillion<\/li>\n<li>septillion<\/li>\n<li>octillion<\/li>\n<li>nonillion<\/li>\n<li>decillion<\/li>\n<li>undecillion<\/li>\n<li>duodecillion<\/li>\n<li>tredecillion<\/li>\n<li>quattuordecillion = 10^45<\/li>\n<li>quindecillion = 10^48<\/li>\n<li>sexdecillion = 10^51<\/li>\n<li>septendecillion = 10^54<\/li>\n<li>octodecillion = 10^57<\/li>\n<li>novemdecillion = 10^60<\/li>\n<li>vigintillion = 10^63<\/li>\n<li>unvigintillion = 10^66 (close to the number of possible shuffles)<\/li>\n<li>duovigintillion = 10^69<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Googol = 10^100 (a 1 followed by 100 zeros)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Related links<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cigital.com\/papers\/download\/developer_gambling.php\">How We Learned to Cheat at Online Poker: A Study in Software Security<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Card Shuffling Every time you shuffle a deck of cards that combination of cards has likely never existed before! The number of possible card shuffles is: 52! = 8.06581752 \u00d7 10^67 (google calculate this) If you shuffled a deck of cards every second for a million years you would only get 3.1556926 \u00d7 10^13 combinations&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/opalgames.com\/blog\/about-card-shuffling\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Card Shuffling<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opalgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opalgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opalgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opalgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opalgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opalgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"https:\/\/opalgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opalgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opalgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opalgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}