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I asked this on /g/ but they were too busy weeding out redditors and trying to average 2 integers.

Drawing 7 playing cards from a deck of 52 is 7^52 possibilities, assuming you can draw the same card twice.
If you wanted to map a binary string to each of these possibilities, you'd need ceil(lg_2(7^52)), or ceil(39.9) = 40 bits.
But I think I can store a hand of 7 in 33 bits with >>>/g/51880088
What is wrong with my scheme?

>> No.7723030

>>7722471
52^7, not 7^52

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7723071

>>7722471
That gif gave me epilepsy

>> No.7723080

>>7722471
yeah but you could say it takes 10 bytes to store an egg, then 1 byte to say how many i'm storing
you can't store 255 eggs in 11 bytes, you can store the same egg 255 times.