0067 - unlikely things

I've been thinking about playing cards lately. Specifically, the odds of a specific shuffle configuration for the standard 52-card deck. This is actually a well-known thought experiment that professors of combinatorics and probability like to impress their freshman students with, but it’s not any less impressive because of it. The idea is that there's an incomprehensibly huge number of ways you can shuffle a deck of cards. In combinatorics terms, there are 52! (factorial) possible shuffles. T...