I have seen there are other answers on this, but they all follow the pattern
- first, choose which card you have $3$ of
- then, choose $3$ of the $4$ available cards
- then, the card you have $2$ of
- then, $2$ of $4$ cards
and they get to
$$\binom{13}{1} \binom{4}{3} \binom{12}{1} \binom{4}{2}$$
for the numerator.
My question is: doesn't this imply some kind of ordering?
By following the same logic, I would think that for the denominator
- pick any of $52$ cards
- then, pick any of $51$ remaining cards
and so on, getting $52 \cdot 51 \cdot 50 \cdot 49 \cdot 48$. But instead, the correct value of the denominator is $\binom{52}{5}$.
Why are those cases different?