Placing a Deck of Cards in Order.

Yates, Mark

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Publication Date: 2005-Jan

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Placing a Deck of Cards in Order

Yates, Mark

Mathematics Teacher, v98 n5 p312-315 Jan 2005

This article finds the minimum number of moves to order a deck of cards by placing them in suits, but not necessarily in order.

Descriptors: Educational Games, Game Theory, Probability, Mathematics

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