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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Paired cards

A standard deck of 52 cards is shuffled with uniform probability. A "pair" is defined as two numerically identical cards that are adjacent in the stack. What is the probability that the deck contains no pair?

Challenge: Find the probability that the deck contains exactly $n$ pair for $n=1,2,\cdots,26$.