User talk:Sjensen938

Game of Set page editing
I am currently working on a research grant over the summer regarding the structure and combinatorics of Set, and saw that you had posted something in the mathematics of Set section. I was curious how much work you have done with the game, and if you were still interested in it. Anything you can tell me would be very much appreciated. Thank you very much for your time.

Sjensen938 04:12, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

I haven't really done any work. I just played the game ~6 years ago and just had a general curiousity in it. I've found the set webpage to be fairly good and made the rest up. There is this stuff commented out on the page which I couldn't get working:


 * The following lines are incorrect. There are many more than 18 setless hands of 20 cards.
 * There are 18 possibilities to choose 20 cards that do not contain any sets. (This is quite sure, but if you find a proof anywhere, please add it to this article.)
 * Given the above two facts, the probability of dealing 20 cards which do not form any sets is $$18\cdot 2.1302 \times 10^{-19} = 3.834 \times 10^{-18}$$, a practically astronomical quantity.

Your project sounds interesting and there are plenty of things that might be publishable. If it was me, I'd start by grabbing a good graduate-level combinatorics text book and dive into it. --vossman 13:17, 22 June 2006 (UTC)