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From: anthony@utcsstat.uucp (Anthony Ayiomamitis)
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: Re: Combinatorics question...
Message-ID: <2270@utcsstat.uucp>
Date: Mon, 10-Mar-86 10:54:27 EST
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	franka@mmitl  <1184@mmintl.UUCP>  writes:
> 
> 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
> 
	I don't think it was a requirement that all players have the same suit.
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