Unless I'm misunderstanding your question, we don't need to worry about any odds once we've drawn a "missed" card.
I'm trying to figure out the odds before anything is drawn. A good example: how does one calculate the odds of drawing a 5 card flush before the first card is dealt? -------------- Ian Skinner Web Programmer BloodSource www.BloodSource.org Sacramento, CA "C code. C code run. Run code run. Please!" - Cynthia Dunning ...-----Original Message----- ...From: Ben Doom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ...Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 12:10 PM ...To: CF-Community ...Subject: Re: Calculating odds. ... ...> For example, 1st draw is in the subset of 10 so the next draw would ...> be 9/19. The second draw is not in the subset so the next draw would ...> be 9/18. The third draw again is in the subset so the next draw ...> would be 8/17 and so on. ... ...If you're drawing 5 cards, and all 5 have to be in the subset of 10, ...then we can stop at your second draw and lump it in with all the others ...that don't meet the criteria. ... ...Unless I'm misunderstanding your question, we don't need to worry about ...any odds once we've drawn a "missed" card. ... ...--Ben ... ... ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get Instant Hacker Protection, Virus Detection, Antispam & Personal Firewall. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=62 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:142593 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
