Absolute Poker Integrity

[Gorgonian]

From the "Integrity" page on Absolute Poker:
http://www.absolutepoker.com/pokerInfoIntegrity.asp

"A deck of 52 cards can be shuffled in 52! ways. 52! is about 2225."

Boy I feel better now.

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[The_Tracker]

I don't understand what they mean. Is this broken english or am I not understanding what they mean?

[Stu Pidasso]

I was drunk during most of High School and College, but I think 52!=52x51x50x49x48x47x46....and so on. ! is a mathmetical symbol.

Someone correct me if I am wrong.

Stu

[MicroBob]

this is correct. 52 factorial i believe it is called.

and i am guessing that 2225 is supposed to be 2^225 (2 to the 225th power).
someone around here should know....but if no one confirms it here you can swing by the probabilities forum to find out for sure.

[The_Tracker]

Right, that makes sense. Thanks for clearing that up.

[UncleDuke]

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this is correct. 52 factorial i believe it is called.

and i am guessing that 2225 is supposed to be 2^225 (2 to the 225th power).
someone around here should know....but if no one confirms it here you can swing by the probabilities forum to find out for sure.


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That's order of magnitude correct. 52! is actually almost 1.5 times 2 to the 225th power, but that's right to the nearest power of 2.