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It shouldn't matter (in my view) whether the cards
are all arranged in order or not--they are in some order and that is all
that matters.
Well, it depends on what you are told about the deck.
--) If you are told it is sorted (in the standard order), then there is
only one ordering that is consistent with that description. That's zero
entropy.
--) In contrast, if you are told that the deck is unsorted, then there are
something like 54 factorial different orderings that are consistent with
that description. That's 237 bits of entropy.
Does that help?