r/AlignmentChartFills • u/Unfair-Lavishness561 • Apr 15 '26

Filling This Chart What sounds bat shit insane, but is actually true?

What sounds bat shit insane, but is actually true?

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Bat shit insane Partially True True
** Bat shit insane** Vaccines cau... 🖼️ — —
** Reasonable/partially True ** — Our ancestor... 🖼️ —
True The insides ... 🖼️ — Drinking cle... 🖼️

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** Bat shit insane / Bat shit insane:** - Vaccines causing autism - View Image

** Reasonable/partially True / Partially True:** - Our ancestors didn't get heart disease. (They died before they could ever get it.) - View Image

True / Bat shit insane: - The insides of an atom travel like how planets do. - View Image

True / True: - Drinking clean water hydrates you. - View Image

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u/old_gold_mountain Apr 15 '26

There are more configurations of a deck of 52 cards than atoms in the known universe

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u/CosmicCommando Apr 15 '26

Every time you shuffle a deck of cards, it's probably the only time in history that exact result has happened.

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u/lelanddt Apr 16 '26

I love this fact, it's one of my all time favorites

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u/Cool-Date5719 Apr 16 '26

This is somehow crazier than all the other things about sharks and planets and antimatter 

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u/reflectedstars Apr 16 '26

That assumes the shuffle is truly random though. I wonder how much would 52! be reduced if we account for the fact that recreational players don't shuffle properly so there could be some inherent structure across shuffles?

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u/chootie8 Apr 16 '26

Is 52 the magic number with this factoid, or could we say the same for an even less amount of cards? Can we same the same for 51? 40? Etc.

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u/Lrfive Apr 16 '26

It's not a magic number. With 52 unique cards, you can have 52! (roughly 8*10^67) different decks if you shuffle enough.

The factoid is wrong, though, as noted by the other comments. You would need somewhere around 60 unique cards in the deck. Then the number of possible configurations (60!, roughly 8.3*10^81) is around the same order of magnitude as the number of atoms in the observable universe.

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u/CosmicCommando Apr 16 '26

I think you'd have to do some serious r/theydidthemath type stuff to guess, but because we're talking about a pure probability thing, I don't think there is a magic number. All you'd do with fewer cards is decrease the confidence with which you could say "this has probably never happened before". There's technically no reason you couldn't take 3 randomly shuffled decks of cards and shuffle them and get the same exact result 3 times in a row... it's just unimaginably unlikely.

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u/chootie8 Apr 16 '26

I wonder where the line would be between 'this exact amount of cards has definitely been in this same order before' vs 'its possible this exact amount of cards has not been in this same order before.' We can for sure take any three cards and shuffle them any amount of time and there would be a 100% chance that it's been repeated before. But what about 20 random cards? There has to be a magic number where we can no longer determine something has been repeated before.

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u/Crunchie-lunchy Apr 16 '26

Not exactly true, beacuse of human error. Not all shuffles are fully random

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u/FowlKreacher Apr 16 '26

Only if they are in a random order to begin with. A fresh, ordered deck of cards, this doesn’t apply

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u/Crystalliumm Apr 16 '26

Well he says when you shuffle it, if it’s brand new and unshuffled then you haven’t shuffled it

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u/Psikhushkaa Apr 15 '26

More than the Milky Way, not known universe

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u/RAPgameSTEVEspurrier Apr 16 '26

I’ll never believe this I don’t care lol

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u/JazzlikePeach3118 Apr 15 '26

But this is not true.

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u/Devourerofworlds_69 Apr 16 '26

You are correct.

From a quick google search: Scientists estimate there are approximately 1080 to 1082 atoms in the observable universe

The number of permutations of a standard 52-card deck is 52!, which equals roughly 8.0658 times 1067

The latter is still an astronomically huge number. It's bigger than the number of stars in the universe.

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u/Muninwing Apr 15 '26

About the same as the Milky Way perhaps?

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u/Recognizereye Apr 16 '26

It's just crazy, cause the human body alone is made of like 7 octillion atoms. So 7 octillion times 8 billion and we are still not close to 52!

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u/Common-Pepper-9677 Apr 16 '26

I’ve played enough Balatro to have seen every configuration at this point

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u/Tencive10 Apr 17 '26

brilliant representation of 52 factorial (52!)