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- From: jose@math.duke.edu (Greg Lawler)
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- Subject: Re: FULL HOUSE
- Summary: interesting probability
- Message-ID: <5293@news.duke.edu>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 19:21:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep13.143329.24796@wuecl.wustl.edu>, ppc1@cec1.wustl.edu (Peter Pui Tak Chiu) writes:
- >
- > hi everyone,
- >
- > i am trying to find the probability of getting a hand of full house from a
- > shuffled deck of 52 cards.
- >
- > theoretically, the probability (i think) is:
- >
- > (13 * 4C2) * (12 * 4C3)
- > ----------------------- = 0.001440576
- > 52C5
- >
- > but i wrote a c program to calculate this probability and the results turn
- > out to be very different.
-
-
-
- You're simulation is incorrect. In your program your
- are dealing from an infinite deck. (in particular,
- if the first card you deal is a king, then the
- probability the second card is a king is 1/13
- instead of 3/51 as it should be).
-
- According to my calculations the probability of
- getting a full house from an infinite deck of cards
- is .00420....
-
- This is the probability that you are simulating,
-
- (Infinite decks do not arise a lot, but sometimes at
- blackjack tables they deal from a large number of
- decks in order to beat card counters.)
-
-
- Greg Lawler
-