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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: Re: Combinatorics question...
Message-ID: <1184@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Mar-86 20:04:41 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  6 20:04:41 1986
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Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT
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In article <6802@boring.UUCP> lambert@boring.UUCP (Lambert Meertens) writes:
>This reminds me of a problem posed some time ago in this newsgroup: How
>many ways are there to deal a deck of cards to four people such that each
>person has at least four cards of each suit?

I think you must have misquoted the problem.  As stated, the answer is
simple: zero.  For four people to each have four cards in a suit, there
must be at least 16 cards in the suit.  But in fact, there are only 13
cards in each suit.

Frank Adams                           ihnp4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
Multimate International    52 Oakland Ave North    E. Hartford, CT 06108