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Copyright (c) Adam Hooper, 2002 cards.c -- The Story: One night, at a party where one lucky person was turning 26, some innocent individual joked that said person was "half a deck of cards". And then it happened: An evil madman asked, "Ah, but what's the probability that in that half a deck lie all four aces"? At first, people started blathering about 50%. But that was easily proven wrong, with the simple question, "Okay, then what's the probability that 2 and only 2 cards are aces?". Statistics has an answer: (26 choose 4) / (52 choose 4), which amounts to about 5.5%. But it's hard to take this number on faith alone -- proof is needed. This program simulates drawing 26 cards from a deck and decides how many of them are aces. And it does it again and again and again. It's pretty fast, but rand() really slows it down; it managed 1,000,000 tests in under 7 minutes CPU time on my Athlon XP 1600+. Usage: run <number of tests>