[4946] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Bridge
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Crawford)
Wed Jun 23 17:34:33 1999
To: "Arnold G. Reinhold" <reinhold@world.std.com>, cryptography@c2.net,
coderpunks@toad.com
From: "Matt Crawford" <crawdad@fnal.gov>
In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 23 Jun 1999 10:21:54 EDT.
<Pine.BSI.3.91.990623100852.22724C-100000@ivan.iecc.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 12:46:43 -0500
> > > There are 52! bridge hands, so a random hand has
> > > log2(56!) = 226 bits of entropy or 68 decimal digits worth.
No, just 52! / (13!)^4 hands, which is around 2^96.
