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
>
>
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