Re: "A hundred million times the total area of the earth..."

On Feb 8, 10:22 pm, grizzly.swe...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Feb 8, 10:47 pm, "Lorne" <lorne_ander...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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But what's the number of possible bidding sequences?

128,745,650,347,031,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

(I rounded the answer since I calculated it in Excel which does note have
enough accuracy for more digits - I think there is a full answer somewhere
on the internet)

Yes, here's the algorithm described:

http://www.durangobill.com/BrBidHowTo.html


Yuck!

While that derivation is correct, some very elementary algebra will
simplify the sum to (4/3)*(22^35) - 1/3 and obviate the need for a
spreadsheet.

.

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