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Daily Archives: April 29, 2010
A perfect hand, with some combinatorial tricks
Question: You deal the first 13 cards from a well shuffled, 52-card deck. What are the chances the 13 cards you deal are of the same suit? There’s a couple of ways to do this – both incorporate useful techniques … Continue reading