Probability of All Players receiving Complete Suit at Bridge/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Probability of All Players receiving Complete Suit at Bridge
According to David Wells in his Curious and Interesting Numbers of $1986$, Martin Gardner has pointed out "forcefully" that claims that all $4$ players have received a complete suit in a deal at Bridge has been made far more often than claims that only $2$ players have done so, even though the latter is far more likely than the former.
Sources
- 1986: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers ... (previous) ... (next): $2,235,197,406,895,366,368,301,560,000$
- 1997: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $2,235,197,406,895,366,368,301,560,000$