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Old 02-06-2008, 02:32 PM   #68
Happy Monkey
I think this line's mostly filler.
 
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Originally Posted by Flint View Post
Except, in this case, you’ve got four pairs of socks in a box, and you’re pulling them out one at a time and lining them up in that order. You have to get them in the exact same order, not just draw the same ones.
In Clodfobble's example, each sock represents a shuffle, not a card, and "four" represents "52!". So you are guaranteed to get a match with five socks, or 52!+1 shuffles. Clodfobble was correcting my misunderstanding of HungLikeJesus' post.
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