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Some people travelled to watch the last public execution in Britain by London Underground.5
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Oxford University predates the Aztecs.2
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Surely the Empire rather than the peoples that made it up???North Lower Neil said:Oxford University predates the Aztecs.
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If your sister ain't you mother and you brother ain't your sister, you ain't proper Norwich4
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no, the Cadbury's chocolate bar?NornIrishAddick said:
Surely the Empire rather than the peoples that made it up???North Lower Neil said:Oxford University predates the Aztecs.
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Ten animals I slam in a net
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Also did you know that old 60s TV broadcasts are bouncing back to earth and can, on occasion, be picked up by large satellite dishes?0
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At least you could watch us win a World Cupcafcnick1992 said:Also did you know that old 60s TV broadcasts are bouncing back to earth and can, on occasion, be picked up by large satellite dishes?
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The world's first international cricket match was between Canada and the USA.
If you put an onion in a Martini it's called a Gibson.
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Decks of cards. There are so many different combinations possible in a pack of 52, that if you were to pick up a deck of randomly shuffled cards, you are almost certainly the first person to hold those cards in that order.
Here's another way of looking at it:
"Imagine the total possible combination figure as time, a countdown clock that counts down from 8.065x10^68 seconds to Zero. How long would it be?
Well, first take any spot on the equator of the Earth. Take ONE step, after every ONE BILLION years. Keep doing this until you complete an entire round around earth. After one round is completed, take ONE DROP of water from the Pacific Ocean and put it aside. Keep doing both of these (completing a round then taking a drop) till the Pacific Ocean has dried out. Once the Pacific Ocean has dried out, place a sheet of paper on the ground. Now keep doing all of these (completing a round, taking a drop, placing a sheet of paper) till the tower of the sheet of paper REACHES THE SUN.
With this, the clock would have reached down TO... 8.062 x 10^68 seconds. Repeat all of this about 1000 times and you would be one-third of the way through."4 - Sponsored links:
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Kylie Minogue is an anagram of You like minge.12
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I understood the first bit.0
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I once appeared in an episode of The Tweenies0
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Not this episode I hope.Duncan270566 said:I once appeared in an episode of The Tweenies
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One of my uni housemate's sister played a Tweenie.Duncan270566 said:I once appeared in an episode of The Tweenies
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Really?I just looked up the average number of steps it takes to walk a mile: 2000, which would mean it would take 2000 billion years to walk 1 mile.JiMMy 85 said:Decks of cards. There are so many different combinations possible in a pack of 52, that if you were to pick up a deck of randomly shuffled cards, you are almost certainly the first person to hold those cards in that order.
Here's another way of looking at it:
"Imagine the total possible combination figure as time, a countdown clock that counts down from 8.065x10^68 seconds to Zero. How long would it be?
Well, first take any spot on the equator of the Earth. Take ONE step, after every ONE BILLION years. Keep doing this until you complete an entire round around earth. After one round is completed, take ONE DROP of water from the Pacific Ocean and put it aside. Keep doing both of these (completing a round then taking a drop) till the Pacific Ocean has dried out. Once the Pacific Ocean has dried out, place a sheet of paper on the ground. Now keep doing all of these (completing a round, taking a drop, placing a sheet of paper) till the tower of the sheet of paper REACHES THE SUN.
With this, the clock would have reached down TO... 8.062 x 10^68 seconds. Repeat all of this about 1000 times and you would be one-third of the way through."
The circumference of the world is 24,901 miles which means it would take 49,802,000 billion years to walk round the Earth. This is before you empty the Pacific Ocean one drop at a time and build a tower of paper to the sun.
I can't believe 52 playing cards could create so many permutations, but then I always a dunce at maths.
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So how many ways can you order all the 52 cards in a pack?
The sum is 52x51x50x49x48....x4x3x2x1 and the answer is roughly:
80,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
That's an 8 with 67 zeros after it.
To put this in perspective, the dinosaurs died out 65,000,000 years ago, and the age of the earth is just 4,500,000,000 years. Now suppose everybody in the world was to arrange packs of cards at the rate of one per second, it would take 600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years to get all the combinations! That's why you're VERY unlikely ever to shuffle a pack of cards the same way twice.1 -
Wow...I stand corrected.palarsehater said:So how many ways can you order all the 52 cards in a pack?
The sum is 52x51x50x49x48....x4x3x2x1 and the answer is roughly:
80,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
That's an 8 with 67 zeros after it.
To put this in perspective, the dinosaurs died out 65,000,000 years ago, and the age of the earth is just 4,500,000,000 years. Now suppose everybody in the world was to arrange packs of cards at the rate of one per second, it would take 600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years to get all the combinations! That's why you're VERY unlikely ever to shuffle a pack of cards the same way twice.
Edit: just looked up the word for 67 zeros which is septensexagintillion.
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Anne Frank and Martin Luther King were both born in 1929.1
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You can't lick your own elbow.0
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Personally no, but some people can.1StevieG said:You can't lick your own elbow.
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52% beats 48%9
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Doesn't really make sense though does it.MrOneLung said:0 -
Have you not heard of the Panama Canal ?
It is quite big....0 -
Doesn't matter how many Charlton supporters demonstrate, there will never be more than 2%0
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Eleven plus two is an anagram of Twelve plus One4
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Katrien Meire is a proper shithouse of a woman.1
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Yadrutas is Saturday backwards0
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The Kylie is a variety of boomerang in the Western Australian Aboriginal language.SuedeAdidas said:Kylie Minogue is an anagram of You like minge.
If you are travelling from the Pacific Ocean into the Caribbean Sea along the Panama Canal you are travelling in a North Westerly direction.MrOneLung said:Have you not heard of the Panama Canal ?
It is quite big....0
