re: The amount of possible ways to arrange a deck of cards is astronomical

My mind is wired for deep thought, not snap decisions. Sadly. I am always enthralled by stats, but suck at them. Here is a popular one. It's sort of legendary I don't know if it's true. Two college kids party the night before and miss their exam. they have to come up with an excuse and they both say they had a flat tire on their way home from an event.
The professor separates them and says okay just answer one question which tire?

What are the chances they get it right?

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Damn y’all can’t take a joke for anything.

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I just assumed you didn't know that "real" numbers are a thing.

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Just always put the next piece on the bottom.

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Ok then


I’m not strong enough to lift a stack of paper that stretches to the sun

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What are the chances they get it right?

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The chances they randomly guess the same tire are 25%.

I’m not trying to walk for a few trillion years bro

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I’m not strong enough to lift a stack of paper that stretches to the sun

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Lives for billions of years, drains the world's oceans.

Can't lift a stack of paper.

I think what I figured out what the probability is of them both picking the same specific tire

So there is a 6% chance of them both picking the front passenger side tire, etc

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If you untangled all of the DNA in your body and ordered it in a straight line, it would reach the Sun and travel back to Earth 600 times.

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Actually you’d be dead if you did that

Every time you shuffle there’s a good chance that it’s the first time in history a deck of cards has ever been ordered in that way.

That's awesome