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To: dread78645; Mr. Lucky
I just dealt out 52 playing cards: [snip] Wow! What are the odds of that happening ...

The odds are 80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000 to 1. It's a miracle!!

295 posted on 10/18/2005 6:54:10 PM PDT by Ichneumon (Certified pedantic coxcomb)
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To: Ichneumon
>I just dealt out 52 playing cards: [snip] Wow! What are the odds of that happening ...

The odds are 80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000 to 1. It's a miracle!!

No, that's only 1 in 1068, or something in that neighborhood. It's well below the Universal Probability Bound. Deal out 3 decks of cards and then you'll have a miracle. ;-)
327 posted on 10/19/2005 1:14:14 AM PDT by jennyp (WHAT I'M READING NOW: Art of Unix Programming by Raymond)
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