How do we really know that no two snowflakes are ever alike?

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How do we really know that no two snowflakes are ever alike?

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There are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards than there are atoms in the universe. And a deck of cards is only 52 things arranged in 1 dimension. A snowflake is *much* more complex, so there are *way* more possible snowflakes. I think it is safe to assume there is a bit of randomness to it, which makes it extremely unlikely that 2 are identical

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