| ▲ | intrasight 3 hours ago | |||||||
There are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards than there are atoms in the visible universe. | ||||||||
| ▲ | amelius 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
There are more ways to configure a single atom than there are card shuffles of a single deck. | ||||||||
| ▲ | smokel 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
A typical grain of sand contains in the order of hundreds of quadrillions of atoms. A deck of cards can be encoded in 226 bits per deck, so one could encode in the order of a quadrillion decks of cards in a single grain of sand! | ||||||||
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