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- From: grove@triangle.Berkeley.EDU (Eddie Grove)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.bridge
- Subject: Re: Which inference is better, WAS - "finesse or play for the drop"
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 20:27:00 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- References: <1992Nov16.131237.19210@ms.uky.edu> <lsimonse.722011812@vipunen.hut.fi> <BxwHCq.55K@irvine.com>
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- In article <BxwHCq.55K@irvine.com> adam@irvine.com (Adam Beneschan) writes:
-
- >Your side has the exact same 26 cards on both hands, and so do the
- >opponents. The distributional probabilities of the opponents' 26
- >cards will be exactly the same in both cases; in no way does it
-
- This is wrong, of course. Unless you use a perfect random source for
- your shuffles, the conditional distribution of the opponents' cards
- will tend to depend upon your cards.
-
- If the cards are shuffled by hand, the distributions are definitely
- related. A good pseudo-random generator will come close enough to
- perfect you don't need to worry, but there are a lot of bad generators
- out there. Does anyone know that the generator(s) used in ACBL events
- are good?
-
- Eddie Grove
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