From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!paganini.bofh.team!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder-in1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 10:38:59 -0600 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Card game deck but with trumps suit for tarot "divination" Is there a better way than enumerating all cards? Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 11:39:01 -0500 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Message-ID: References: <87y3ki743m.fsf@jacob-sparre.dk> <40142b86-fdcf-49d3-bee7-2fdbb04c6db0@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.73.118.199 X-Trace: sv3-pMrXJQq55NrYOWh5yDmAFvEL3jJpZkTSHkJyb+PNN5YNekIRE8ANVKSANUS6OGalth/fCrbcM2021aG!DWiEbtYE1C/wVTz1srzR1/07rPgsUF/gPp2ALf7jNKR/7KB4aldIp0mnkZEdxz83K/OF9yArcZn4!IDy0aV5WdXNiqgCijmruz25GH0hx X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1986 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:50196 Date: 2018-01-28T11:39:01-05:00 List-Id: On Sun, 28 Jan 2018 01:23:56 -0800 (PST), bozovic.bojan@gmail.com declaimed the following: > >I make a Deck, Initialize it (with all 78 "divinatory meanings" of cards) call this Shuffle and draw then a number of cards. My code is not ideal, it just happen to work, but I've did only some PHP programming and assembler programming back in 80s on 8-bit home computer. Well... If I may confuse the matter even further... Does your system make use of the differences between upright and reversed cards? If so, you'll need some way to track reversals throughout the shuffle and draw phases. -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/