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- From: fujimoto@carson.u.washington.edu (Bryant Fujimoto)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.bridge
- Subject: Re: Which inference is better, WAS - "finesse or play for the drop"
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.224411.4092@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 22:44:11 GMT
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- grove@triangle.Berkeley.EDU (Eddie Grove) writes:
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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.
-
- Would someone please explain this last point more fully? I am afraid
- it isn't obvious to me.
-
- Thanks, Bryant Fujimoto
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- >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
-