A standard deck of cards has fifty-two unique cards, meaning there are approximately eight unvigintillion, sixty-five vigintillion, eight hundred seventeen novemdecillion, five hundred twenty octodecillion, possible permutations within the deck. In English, there is no chance that you could ever shuffle a deck of cards into the same order you ever had it. In fact, you statistically have better odds of making a hole in one, winning a million dollars and getting a perfect Royal Flush on the same day. Now let’s consider the odds of me writing this essay and you reading this. The odds of one of us even being born was roughly 1 and 10^2,685,000 according to some statisticians more knowledgeable than I. This number is unfathomable to us as humans, but I will do my best to quantify the miracle of this paper in a story: …show more content…
They planned to do so by packing up their belongings, and taking their son, my grandfather, Casey Zemlik, to Australia. While they were making preparations to leave, a health inspector noted that my grandfather was ill and could not immigrate to Australia. As it turned out, he had a tapeworm and as luck or fate would have it after he got well, they decided to immigrate to America instead of