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From: "Eric I." <rubytrain...@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Studying Blackjack (#151)
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 19:03:49 -0800 (PST)
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On Jan 6, 7:07=A0pm, Denis Hennessy <de...@hennessynet.com> wrote:
> Gah! There was a bug - it valued aces after other cards but didn't =A0
> take into account other aces.

Yeah, it was a pretty subtle issue.  I read your code many times,
certain that it worked the same as mine.  It was only because the
biggest differences in our results was when ace was the upcard that I
focused on the ace-handling code..

Thanks for going after the exact odds!  I don't think I would have
tried it had you not demonstrated that it was possible.

Eric