HP 15c - Manual (Page 48)

48 Section 4: Statistics Functions
How many different four-card hands can be dealt from a deck of 52 cards?
Keystrokes Display
52 v 4
4
Fifty-two (y) cards dealt four
(x) at a time.
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Number of different hands
possible.
The maximum size of x or y is 9,999,999,999.
Random Number Generator
Pressing ´# (random number) will generate a random number
(part of a uniformly distributed pseudo-random number sequence) in the
range 0 ≤ r <1.
*
At initial power-up (including reset of Continuous Memory), the HP-15C
random number generator will use zero as a ―seed‖ to initiate a random
number sequence. Any time you generate a random number, that number
becomes the seed for the next random number. You can initiate a different
random number sequence by storing a new seed for the random number
generator. (Repetition of a random number seed will produce repetition of
the random number sequence.)
O´# will store the X-register number (0 ≤ r < 1) as a new seed
for the random number generator. (A value for r outside this range will be
converted to fit within the range.)
l´# will recall to the display the current random number seed.
Keystrokes Display
.5764
0.5764
Stores 0.5764 as random number seed.
(The ´ keystroke may be omitted.) O´
# 0.5764
´# 0.3422
Random number sequence initiated by the
above seed.
´# 0.2809
− 0.0000
* Passes the spectral test (D. Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming. Vol. 2. Seminumerical Algorithms,
Third Edition, 1998).