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Math Magic

Vsauce · explainer · Watch on YouTube

Recreational & visual mathProbability & game theoryMagic, puzzles & curiosities

What it is

Vsauce explores math through card tricks and big numbers, including an animation of how enormous 52 factorial, the number of deck orderings, really is.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Cited for its well-known attempt to convey the size of 52 factorial.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “Vsauce has a fantastic animation of this too”

    Animation conveying the enormity of 52 factorial

    Kortaggio, 2016-06 · Recommendation · in “To approximate 52! by hand, compute 54! and divide by 3000”

  2. “But it's worth watching the whole thing.”

    Explains how long 52! seconds would take

    redundantly, 2024-12 · Recommendation · in “Every V4 UUID”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: 52 factorial, card shuffling, math magic, permutations, vsauce

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