Saturday, April 08, 2006

What is this number?

80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824
( Not enough room on that line, add 12 zeros )

Do you have any idea what this number represents? (Answer Below in white, Click and drag your mouse over it to view) and no, it's not the cost of the war in Iraq.

How many different ways a deck of cards can be shuffled. In other words, how many different arrangements of the 52 cards that are possible. Every time you shuffle a deck of 52 cards, you get a new arrangement of the cards that has never been seen by anyone before, and will never occur again!

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