Re^2: Generating all 5-card hands

merlyn,
For generating all combinations of 52 cards taken 5 at a time....But are you really ready to process all 2598960 iterations? At 100 per second, that's still about a third of a day.

In cribbage, order is important contrary to what thor said earlier. The position of 1 card determines its eligibility for "right-jack" so there really are 12,994,800 hands that need to be considered. Even still, it is possible to both generate and score all those hands in under 15 minutes using pure perl. This would encompass everything thor wanted to do and a lot more.

Cheers - L~R

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Re^3: Generating all 5-card hands by thor (Priest) on Mar 31, 2006 at 22:40 UTC
In cribbage, order is important contrary to what thor said earlier. While you're correct in that order matters, you and I are not disagreeing. My original problem was to prove that all hands that contained a 5 had at least two points. If knobs is obtained, then a jack was cut. With at least one 5 in the hand, this will yield 2 points for the fifteen, thus satisfying the original problem. thor `The only easy day was yesterday`	[reply]

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Re^3: Generating all 5-card hands
by thor (Priest) on Mar 31, 2006 at 22:40 UTC

In cribbage, order is important contrary to what thor said earlier.

thor

The only easy day was yesterday

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