Maths, lovely maths

Infinity in your hands

Hold a pack of cards and appreciate the factorial of 52. Scott Czepiel takes us on a tour of the universe via this 'simple number'. It's merely 80658175170943878571660636856403766975289505440883277824000000000000. Nowhere near infinity, right? It's even smaller than a googol, let alone its bigger sibling, the googolplex. But it's big enough to run out of universe pretty fast. 

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