How did the 'impossible' Perfect Bridge Deal happen?

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This was my previous video about Dream and Minecraft.
"How lucky is too lucky?: The Minecraft Speedrunning Dream Controversy Explained"
• How lucky is too lucky...
Yep, I did try to do 52 perfect shuffles in a row, live. With, I would say, some success.
This is the Patreon post with details: / 50353681
You can now watch it here: • 52 perfect In Shuffles...
Check out Tori Noquez's great videos.
"The Mathematics of 8 Perfect Faro Shuffles"
• The Mathematics of 8 P...
This is Peter Rowlett's Aperiodical article "Four perfect hands: An event never seen before (right?)"
aperiodical.com/2011/12/four-...
Plus Jason Davison did a Numberphile about perfect shuffles and magic.
• 52-Card Perfect Shuffl...
This is how I actually did the calculation. www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i...
CORRECTIONS
- The first upload of this video had some serious audio issues. Sorry! It broke when the video was render and because it was only in the middle I didn't spot it once it had uploaded.
- At 07:45 I imply that you might start dealing from the bottom of the deck (obviously I would never dream of such a thing). But the structure is the same as dealing from the top. It was just easier to see from the 'bottom' of the face-up cards.
- 14:01I am inconsistent with "second card in" and "first card in". In both cases I mean the second card along. Which is the first card 'in'.
- Let me know if you spot any mistakes in this version!
Thanks to my Patreon supporters who I used to justify spending several weeks learning how to do a faro shuffle. I'm meant to be writing a new book you know. So, thanks a lot.
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Graphics by Sam Hartburn and Matt Parker
Music by Howard Carter
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@standupmaths 3 жыл бұрын

Reminder that you can watch Art's magic math videos on your free trial to The Great Courses Plus:

@ericherde1 Жыл бұрын

After watching the intro, the answer seems obvious to me: every senior citizen plays millions of hands of bridge every second.

@NickBFlair 3 жыл бұрын

If the cards are shuffled by humans then the deals are never random. I've been playing competition bridge for over 45 years and there was a huge change in the game when the competitions moved to computer generated random hands.

@esotericVideos 3 жыл бұрын

I know Matt is really trying to popularize his coined phrase of 1 in 3.1E19 as "The Ten Billion Human Second Century", but I much prefer 1 in 2.0E22 as being formally recognized as a "Dream Come True".

@vivian-alexandrarivers897 3 жыл бұрын

If this just becomes a series of debunking low probability events in history, I'm living for it.

@finallyjoined 3 жыл бұрын

Matt Parker doing what math teachers do best: crushing dreams.

@YamiOni 3 жыл бұрын

I'd not be surprised if at least half of these perfect deals were orchestrated by one member of the group just trying to add some excitement to their friends' lives.

@NabeelFarooqui 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine if Matt did a real random shuffle and tried again and again to get that perfect bridge shot. Like that 10 heads in a row video

@curtmack 3 жыл бұрын

Another case where an old deck of cards could realistically be sorted by suit: The deck had just been used to play Klondike solitaire.

@brh131 3 жыл бұрын

Matt has finally discovered the time tested content creator strategy of putting Dream in the thumbnail

@MrRussianComrad 3 жыл бұрын

I think it is important to note that long term bridge players are so good at shuffling that they could very well do perfect consecutive faroh shuffles without doing it on purpose.

@chris5619 3 жыл бұрын

My man learned how to do a perfect faro shuffle just because people questioned his other odds video regarding a supposed perfect bridge deal. Dedication.

@zidanez21 3 жыл бұрын

When Matt was saying "its obviously not going to happen here" but you've watched Matt Parker enough to know there is some sort of tomfoolery going here

@jucom756 3 жыл бұрын

If you want a fair game you need to do the most unprofessional shuffle.

@agreenflashlight 3 жыл бұрын

As someone knew how to do a faro shuffle already and who noticed him doing it at the beginning of the video, I was impressed when he flipped over the cards and they were all arranged perfectly. I was thinking, "there's no way he's going to do a perfect faro shuffle twice while talking," but he did it. It's really hard to do, and I'm impressed.

@gwenyurick9663 3 жыл бұрын

"Do I owe dream an apology"

@ThinkBeyondTheBox 3 жыл бұрын

Anticipating an influx this month of local newspapers reporting that a perfect bridge deal occurred because Matt's viewers are going to pull this trick on their friends and attain local fame.

@blacktimhoward4322 3 жыл бұрын

As a MTG player who's been double nicked too many times, I decided about 40 seconds in that the problem here was the shuffle

@brandonfaddis7443 3 жыл бұрын

"...the deck was already stacked, and I maintain the same still applies to Dream." Brutal.

@thomasrosebrough9062 3 жыл бұрын

Another case (for first games of the night) which might cause a deck to be perfectly organized, is when someone organizes them on purpose to count and make sure it's a full deck.