Re: 3rd Ed repartition ?

cosmicaccountant@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
LSJ wrote:
Don Juan wrote:
Oh, so your whole post was devoted to trumpeting the fact that 3*36 >
100. Impressive. You should rush to get that published in the Journal
of the European Mathematical Society. Surely, no one else here was
capable of figuring that out.

Um.

He was addressing exactly that query (what's the bare minimum number of
boxes needed to complete a set in a best-case scenario). Someone else
raised the query. I don't think that James was suggesting that
obtaining the answer required special insight or mathemathical skills.
That the answer was based on easy logic doesn't change the fact that
the question was raised.

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad/msg/e254e041f660f3c7

Um.

Fabio said that under ANY distribution (implicitly: real
distributions), more than three boxes would be required --- a true
statement.

1. Fabio said, as quoted in the post linked above, "And IIRC, 400-card
sets require more than just 3 boxes to get a complete set no matter how
good the distribution is."

That is, "no matter how good" (implicitly: under best-case scenario).

2. Saying "any" would not change matters, since the best-case (i.e.,
"perfect") distribution is a distribution. Compare: "And IIRC, it would
require more than 6 rolls of a die to have every number from 1 to 6
come up at least once, no matter how fair the die."

With the current set (390 cards in the boosters), 3 boxes would do it if
the distribution was perfect. To which James replied that in some hypothetical fantasy
universe in which "perfect" distributions exist, one would only need 3
boxes. Totally irrelevant, given that we don't live in that universe.
Hence, his 4th grade arithmetic didn't contribute anything to the
thread.

Except to answer the issue Fabio raised.

Or, at least, an issue that could be read as being raised by Fabio's
verbiage.

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