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...your issue of Jan. 22, regarding the manner in which to deal various bridge hands as worked out by Professor Louis Frank Woodruff, M. I. T., I feel that it is up to you to tell us how you would refer verbally to the figure 80,660,63 ciphers. You printed it, so it is up to you to tell us what mathematical figure this...
...Emlen Hall and to Editor of TIME, the former for the idea and the latter for its execution. The Quiz was too marvelous and made this week's reading of TIME (Jan. 22) much more enjoyable (except it was a bit difficult remembering the exact number of Professor Woodruff's zeros...
Something of that sort must by mathematical necessity be back of at least 90% of the newsstories which every few months tell of someone in the U. S. holding a 13-trump bridge hand. Such is the conclusion of Louis Frank Woodruff, assistant professor of electrical power transmission, at M. I. T., who has worked out some remarkable card facts by means of algebraic permutations & combinations. In the current issue of M. I. T.'s Technology Review Professor Woodruff's figures show that the chance of any honestly dealt hand's consisting of an entire suit...
...unshuffled pack, each player will get one card from each trick, and the result will be a number of 3-and 4-card suits typical of weak hands. Poor shuffling does not correct this tendency. After examining hundreds of hands dealt after one, two, three and four shuffles, Mr. Woodruff shows that it takes at least four good shuffles to produce the proper quota of uneven distribution. With the help of an M. I. T. colleague, he has invented a machine controlled by a 52-lobe irregular cam which is designed to deal a pack into hands of the ideal...
Score--Adams 19, Leverett 12. Goals--Hale, Young, Chiron, Huntington, DeBlois, Donahue, Reed 2, Woodruff 2, Lasinsky. Fouls--Chiron 3, Wills 2, Young, DeBlois, Maddux, Jahn. Referee--Vahan Moushegian. Time--two 15-minute periods. ELIOT BROOKS Forman, McNett, r.f. l.f., O'Donnell Cohen, Holsapple, l.f. r.f., Grilli, Murphy Pierce, Knapp, c. c., Whitney, Sturgis, Hirscham Shapiro, Holsapple, r.g. l.g., Le Roy Ferry, Knapp, l.g., r.g., Frisoli, Sturgis...