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re: What are some jaw dropping stats?
Posted on 10/31/20 at 12:35 am to LuckySo-n-So
Posted on 10/31/20 at 12:35 am to LuckySo-n-So
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There are more stars in the night sky than there are grains of sand on all the earth’s beaches and deserts.
Here's something that really fricked me up: there are more trees on Earth than there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
Trying to explain the possible combinations of a 52-card deck is always fun. It's 52!, which probably means dick to most of us, but it's a really fricking big number. Here's one explanation from Reddit.
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Set a timer to count down 52! seconds (that’s 8.0658×1067 seconds)
Stand on the equator, and take a step forward every billion years
When you’ve circled the earth once, take a drop of water from the Pacific Ocean, and keep going
When the Pacific Ocean is empty, lay a sheet of paper down, refill the ocean and carry on.
When your stack of paper reaches the sun, take a look at the timer.
The 3 left-most digits won’t have changed. 8.063×1067 seconds left to go. You have to repeat the whole process 1000 times to get 1/3 of the way through that time. 5.385×1067 seconds left to go.
So to kill that time you try something else.
Shuffle a deck of cards, deal yourself 5 cards every billion years
Each time you get a royal flush, buy a lottery ticket
Each time that ticket wins the jackpot, throw a grain of sand in the grand canyon
When the grand canyon’s full, take 1oz of rock off Mount Everest, empty the canyon and carry on.
When Everest has been leveled, check the timer.
There’s barely any change. 5.364×1067 seconds left. You’d have to repeat this process 256 times to have run out the timer.
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