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Re: Mathematician for hire?
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There's a good chance you can find that someone has already done them.

One place to look, and the address has changed, but the guys site is still up and running "somewhere" grin I think he sold the name and started over on his new site.

Look for,

Wizard of Odds or WizardofOdds

Card probability is pretty finite. You might be able to get some usable results for yourself. Any card is 1 in 52, after the first hard is remove from the possibilities, any specific card is 1 in 51.

If other cards are removed from the equation, and are not one of the cards you want, the number is reduced and your odds of getting any "needed" card are better.

Say you want a Royal Flush. You get one of the needed cards. You now have a 4 in 51 chance of getting one of the needed cards.

To start with drawing a specific card out of a deck is .0192

To keep it simple, drawing a specific card out of the 51 is .0196 (chances are actually better since in this example your positive outcome is one of four other cards)

.0192 (1.92%) x .0196 = .0003763 chance that you will get any two specific cards out of a deck, if you draw two cards at random.

You might consider it the odds of getting a needed card from all cards left in the deck.

Did that help any?

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Mathematician for hire?
Re: Try MIT, Try beat Vegas once grin
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Two Cards Question
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Did you look at this site?
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Michael Shakelford aka Wizard of Odds
w/o my looking, can I get that book from LVA?

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