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:::My understanding from the task description is that there is an "arbitrary" requirement to return only deals where there are exactly 4 sets. A brute force way of doing this is to repeatedly sample 9 cards from the pack until you get a deal that contains exactly 4 sets. HTH. --[[User:Tikkanz|Tikkanz]] 09:49, 11 February 2013 (UTC) |
:::My understanding from the task description is that there is an "arbitrary" requirement to return only deals where there are exactly 4 sets. A brute force way of doing this is to repeatedly sample 9 cards from the pack until you get a deal that contains exactly 4 sets. HTH. --[[User:Tikkanz|Tikkanz]] 09:49, 11 February 2013 (UTC) |
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:::: You're asked to create the dealer code for an ''existing'' puzzle game, that happens to have these rules. They may seem arbitrary, but I'm sure the puzzle designers had a reason for it, which probably has to do with consistency of presentation and degree of difficulty. [[User:Fwend|Fwend]] 10:40, 11 February 2013 (UTC) |
:::: You're asked to create the dealer code for an ''existing'' puzzle game, that happens to have these rules. They may seem arbitrary, but I'm sure the puzzle designers had a reason for it, which probably has to do with consistency of presentation and degree of difficulty. [[User:Fwend|Fwend]] 10:40, 11 February 2013 (UTC) |
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::::: Sure. But from the point of view of someone solving the task on this site, the choice of 4 (or 6) is fairly arbitrary. I don't have any problem with that. I was just thinking that perhaps Paddy was over thinking the problem and that clarification might help. |
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