VARIATIONS OF THE GAME.
Every man when he takes up his cards at a game of whist holds one out of 635,013,559.600 possible hands. As for the total number ot variations possible among all players, it is so enormous as to almost exceed belief. Mr Babbage calculated that if 1,000.000 men were to be engaged dealing cards at the rate of one deal every minute, day and night, for 100,000,000 years, they would not have exhausted all the possible variations of the cards, but only 100,000 th part of them.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIX, Issue I, 26 June 1897, Page 4
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90VARIATIONS OF THE GAME. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIX, Issue I, 26 June 1897, Page 4
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