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Old 08-16-2005, 08:47 AM
LetYouDown LetYouDown is offline
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Default Re: Another Boredom Filler

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LetYouDown, did you just come up with that problem or did you see it somewhere? Also, what do you do for a living (if that's not too personal)? I've noticed that you seem to answer many of the people's questions.

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Computer Programmer/Software Engineer. Problems like this have always interested me, although I rarely need to use combinatorics for the "real world" applications I work on.

You can monte carlo this problem to get a pretty accurate answer, but I'd really really like to see a closed form solution. Inclusion/Exclusion would be ridiculously tedious, I concur...but I'm curious if that's really the only way to solve this. Granted, you could always write out all 8.0658175170943878571660636856404e+67 possible decks, and solve manually!
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