In fact, 99.999999% is an extremely low estimate. The number of ways that a deck of cards can be shuffled is 52! Which is equal to 8065817517094387857166063685640376697528950544088327782400000000000 possibilities.

If you shuffled cards every second from the birth of the universe until now, you still wouldn’t even come close (statistically) to getting the same arrangement twice.

  • FishFace@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    For generating unique IDs, you can combine a random part with some other data, like the current time, so if it’s only those that are generated within the same millisecond that you even need to worry about.