John Hazen wrote: > Interesting. I've been thinking about playing with this stuff too, but > hadn't considered masks. So each card has a representation: > > n bits for rank, then m bits for suit. > > 00000000000010 0001 = 2 clubs > 01000000000000 1000 = K spades > ...
You can also deal with them as a mask of card indexes. So the deuce of clubs is bit 0, the three of clubs is bit 1, all the way up to the ace of spades, which is bit 51. (That obviously won't fit in an int; you'll need a long.) -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis You are the lovers rock / The rock that I cling to -- Sade -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
