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Chance of seeing a flush in a shuffled deck

2010-01-04T02:26:07Z

If I thoroughly shuffle a standard deck of 52 cards, what is the
chance that the deck (when placed face up end-to-end) will contain a
run of 5 (or more) of the same suit?
By "run", I just mean five (or more) cards in a row of the same suit.
I don't mean "run" the way it is normally used in card games like

Re: A poor genie's lottery

2010-01-03T15:06:59Z

That's a second problem I haven't looked at: If there are 40 numbers,
how many tickets are needed? 30 numbers? I can do it using 28 tickets,
and a maximum number of 26 this way:
A) use seven tickets to choose all possibilities of six numbers from 1
to 7. This forces two numbers to be between 1 and 7.

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Easy Q1 squarest [inch rectangle] (yd x 7ft.)

2010-01-03T07:05:57Z

Easy Q1 squarest [inch rectangle] (yd x 7ft.)
...
three easy puzzles with calculator
below. original (?)
Dear Mathematician, 3/1/2010. bcc;
somehow i think the date was significant? 301 201. = ?
greetings, Don S.
(yd x 7ft.)
raised to a power.
FC LT DM

how many vulgar fractions ab/c display on

2010-01-03T07:01:42Z

359x839=301.201
amazing #12x251 Xmas date.
puzzle .. Dear Mathematician, bcc;
how many vulgar fractions ab/c display on
casio fx82 scicalc?
E.g. 8/(10^8-1)
chrs Don

Re: What is it? Set 317

2010-01-02T20:28:59Z

It may be accurate these days. Amsteel Blue polyethylene is
approximately as strong as steel of the same diameter, and it stretches
only slightly.
If it's 3/4" synthetic rope in the picture, it must weigh about 1/2
pound. Wire would weigh 5 pounds. The big weight savings is in the
rope from the winch to the choker. A logger can take the synthetic to

Re: A poor genie's lottery

2010-01-02T19:57:08Z

The Qurqirish Dragon set the following eddies spiralling through the
space-time continuum:
Your solution would even work with the UK national lottery (6 from 49) as
would Mark's. Dgates' solution would not work because numbers higher than
49 were invoked in the analysis.

Re: Explain once-over twilight thought transference, Foster

2010-01-02T15:22:09Z

Mark Brader:

Andrew Bull:
Close enough! I actually used my RHU1.

Re: Explain once-over twilight thought transference, Foster

2010-01-02T13:17:05Z

Head words for the column/page containing the words "one" to "twenty"
in the OED?

Explain once-over twilight thought transference, Foster

2010-01-02T07:08:14Z

Once-over, twilight, thought transference, Foster, fissionability,
Sister of Charity, seton, Egeria, nil, Temple, elevated, twaddler,
third law of motion, four-a-cat, field theory, Sister of Charity,
seton, eighteen, nil, twaddler.

Re: What is it? Set 317

2010-01-02T03:08:44Z

The young men doing this were called chokermen here. Most of the chokers I
have seen just had a steel eye spliced into the ends. I can't imagine that
flimsy thing holding a real tree, like the ones we have here in British
Columbia!
I have seen them in use here, one uncle owned a small logging company when I

Re: What is it? Set 317

2010-01-02T02:32:30Z

Not defending this rope, but I seem to remember rope chokers being used in
helicopter logging in the TV series "Ax Men". Can't find any photos, though.
Kerry (son of two loggers)

Re: What is it? Set 317

2010-01-02T00:38:50Z

There are a LOT of items on display in museums that are incorrect. Many
times it's simply because they went on the word of the donor, who may
have used the item for something entirely different than what it was
designed/intended for. You see it a lot at farm machinery displays and
antique shops.