When I click "Start", all that happens for me is that the dice vanish. This is using Linux Firefox 1.0.4 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20070530 Firefox/1.0.4 (Debian package 1.0.4-2sarge17)).
I really need to upgrade...
Also, a correction:
Darth Holbytlan wrote:[*] NB: This problem is extra tricky. I got it wrong even though I wrote a program to generate all of the outcomes.
392 is still correct, but I missed two weird cases. YX10JQ only matches 8910JQ, so it should be added in, but X10JYK matches 10JQKA (10JYKX) and needs to be removed. These two cancel each other out.
DH, thanks for your corrections on the Probability work. I've since updated that page to account for the straight flush and the fact that you would never use a joker as a low card when actually playing poker. As I said earlier, I was not really thinking of the rules of poker when I did that. I also spruced it up by making a JavaScript widget to scroll through all the possible combinations, just for fun. Hopefully it works on IE6, which I don't have and can't test.
"It's not evil for God to do it. Or for someone to do it at God's command."- Jonathan Boyd on baby-killing
"you guys are fascinated with the use of those "rules of logic" to the extent that you don't really want to discussus anything."- GC
"I do not believe Russian Roulette is a stupid act" - Embracer of Darkness
"Viagra commercials appear to save lives" - tharkûn on US health care.
Heh. That javascript mostly works even on my crappy browser...
I'd probably add the following to the second paragraph (starting with "This is the trickiest exercise..."): "Plus, we don't want to count the same hand multiple times, which is always a danger if we can produce it multiple ways." I know I'm emphasizing this point a lot, but I do think it's important.
