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Every blend is unique!

Take a deck of cards and shuffle it well. Shuffle, cut, spread, pick up, make sure all 52 cards in the deck are well mixed. Is it all right?

Believe it or not, this is most certainly the first time in the history of the universe that a deck of cards has been found in precisely the order you're looking at... dizzying, isn't it? And that's just the beginning!

Since there are 52 cards, there are 52 possible cards for the first card in the deck. In the same way, once the first card in the deck has been set, there are 51 possible cards for the second, then 50 for the third and so on. All the way to the last card. So, in the end, you end up with

52 x 51 x 50 x .... x 2 x 1 possible blend combinations

To give you an idea, if we were to calculate this number, we'd get a 1 followed by 67 zeros behind it! That's over 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 combinations!

To put this number into perspective, if you were to make a different shuffle every second since the very creation of the universe (13.7 billion years ago, after all!) you'd still be a long way from having made every possible combination of shuffles! And that's with just 52 cards!

Now realize that with every shuffle, you're holding in your hands an order that has probably never existed before. This surprising fact can serve you well in your routines, to bring even more magic to your acts, by telling spectators how lucky they are to have before their eyes a deck of cards in a configuration unique in the world. A touch of poetry that inspires, and why not lead to the creation of effects around this theme!

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