I see what you've done with */13x!13*1+i.4 , and does show the relationship between the number of pages and (your) number of hands. Very enlightening to me.
And I think the usual term for what appears on each "page" here is a "deal" which each contains 4 "hands". On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 2:30 PM Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
