The number I gave was for the number of possibilities for a single player's hand.
I don't know enough about bridge to say what the word or phrase would be for the set of four hands that gets dealt from a deck at the start of a bridge game. (It's probably something obvious, though, for regular bridge players. Maybe that's a "hand" and what a the term for the cards a single player gets is something else?) But the number of possibilities there should be: */13x!13*1+i.4 53644737765488792839237440000 which is the number you're seeing. Thanks, -- Raul On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 12:32 PM Brian Schott <[email protected]> wrote: > > [Moved to chat] > > Raul, > > When I divide your number by their number, the result appears to be an > integer, suggesting to me that yours is embedded in theirs, perhaps? > > ]j=.".'x',~'53,644,737,765,488,792,839,237,440,000'-.',' > 53644737765488792839237440000 > j%635013559600 > 84478098072866400 > > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 12:10 PM Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Right, so > > > > 13!52x > > 635013559600 > > > > is the number of distinct bridge hands (and, thus, the number of pages > > in a book which would map from page number to bridge hand). > > > > That said, I've not yet thought up an algorithm to map from page > > number to bridge hand. In one respect it's simple - you're dealing all > > the cards in the deck, and for each card you just need to decide who > > the card goes to. But there's something I'm missing in my > > conceptualization of this process. > > > > Thanks, > > > > -- > > Raul > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
