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Old 06-01-2005, 12:47 AM
BruceZ BruceZ is offline
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Default Re: Likelihood of opponents

For example, here are the first 3 terms, which give an accuracy to much better than 0.04%. This assumes you don't hold a J-A:

9*24/C(50,2) -
C(9,2)*24*19/C(50,2)/C(48,2) +
C(9,3)*24*(18*14 + 1*18)/C(50,2)/C(48,2)/C(46,2)

=~ 16.5%
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