Subj : Re: texas holdem
To   : comp.programming
From : cri
Date : Thu Oct 06 2005 07:39 pm

On 6 Oct 2005 10:17:47 -0700, bob@coolgroups.com wrote:

>Actually, I'm doing the iterations wrong.  I thought there were
>50choose7 combos, but there are (50choose2)*(48choose5), which is 2
>billion.
>
>Anyone have any ideas for quickly processing 2 billion poker hands?

Yes, don't do it.  Treat flushes as a special case and then you only
need to account for ranks.  The details are left as a finger exercise
for competent programmers.


>

Richard Harter, cri@tiac.net
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