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Shuffled Cards (Posted on 2003-03-22)

2 people each shuffle a deck of 52 playing cards thoroughly.

What is the probabilty of both decks being in the EXACT same order after shuffling?

See The Solution Submitted by Adam Champken

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Solution(again)

| Comment 9 of 11 |

The probability is same as "What is the probability to guess the order of the cards?"

that is 1/52! = 1.24 * 10^-68 = 1.24 * 10^-66 %

Posted by not_so_einstein on 2003-03-22 23:12:26

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