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This was not unexpected but a bit difficult. How would you represent the ordering of a deck of card if you only have 32bytes to work with. So, he explained that you have 52 objects, there are 52! possible ordering of them. how to encode one of those ordering within 32 bytes?
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Oct 2, 2011

This was not unexpected but a bit difficult. How would you represent the ordering of a deck of card if you only have 32bytes to work with. So, he explained that you have 52 objects, there are 52! possible ordering of them. how to encode one of those ordering within 32 bytes?

How many race heats are needed to find the 3 fastest pinewood derby cars out of a field of 8, if only 4 cars can run at a time (assuming that every car will always run the way/speed and each lane is exactly equivalent)?
Jun 13, 2012

How many race heats are needed to find the 3 fastest pinewood derby cars out of a field of 8, if only 4 cars can run at a time (assuming that every car will always run the way/speed and each lane is exactly equivalent)?

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