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Is there any reason for the first line of his chart to have one number that's different from the rest? I think the program he used might have been flawed.
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Brian Alspach claims to be fallible, but the errors he makes are few and far between. The number of straight flush hands decreases as the high card proceeds from a seven to an ace. There are 4,324 straight flushes in which the highest card is an ace. The computations are explained here:
http://www.math.sfu.ca/~alspach/comp20/.