THE VIDEO SHELF · large numbers and combinatorics
Math Magic
Vsauce explores math through card tricks and big numbers, including an animation of how enormous 52 factorial, the number of deck orderings, really is.
Why HN readers recommended it
Cited for its well-known attempt to convey the size of 52 factorial.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Vsauce
- Topic
- large numbers and combinatorics
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2016–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
Vsauce has a fantastic animation of this too: [VIDEO] Deal yourself five cards every billion years. When you finally deal yourself a royal flush, buy a lottery ticket. If the ticket wins the lottery, throw a single grain of sand into the Grand Canyon. As …
Kortaggio on Hacker News · 2016-06
In To approximate 52! by hand, compute 54! and divide by 3000The number you're thinking of is 52! (52 factorial) and how long it would take for 52! seconds to pass by. Vsauce has a great video on this, and might be where that example was taken from. [VIDEO] That example starts 16 minutes into the …
redundantly on Hacker News · 2024-12
In Every V4 UUID
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.