Search: id:A143314 Results 1-1 of 1 results found. %I A143314 %S A143314 0,0,0,0,40,1844,41584,611340,6588116,55482100,380126920,2177910310, %T A143314 10644616240,45049914588,167011924492,547315800984,1597026077496, %U A143314 4173458163098,9813490226056,20841357619302,40096048882028 %N A143314 Number of hands of n cards containing a straight flush (for n=1 to 52). %C A143314 With a regular deck of 52 playing cards (4 suits of 13 cards: 23456789TJQKA) a "straight flush" consists of 5 cards of the same suit with consecutive values. The ace (A) is considered to come either before the deuce (2) or after the king (K). %C A143314 The first terms of the sequence are zero because there are no straight flushes in a hand of fewer than 5 cards. %H A143314 Gerard P. Michon (g.michon(AT)att.net), Aug 06 2008, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..52 %H A143314 G. P. Michon, q-Card Poker. %F A143314 The generating function is a polynomial: (1+x)^52-[(1+x)^13-x^5(1+x)(10+61x+156x^2+215x^3+169x^4+65x^5+12x^6+\ x^7)]^4 %e A143314 a(5)=40 because each suit allows 10 straight flushes (2 of which contain an ace). %e A143314 a(44)=752538149=C(52,44)-1 because there's only one way to avoid a straight flush with 44 cards (namely, 2346789JQKA in every suit). %e A143314 a(45)=133784560=C(52,45) because every hand of 45 cards (or more) includes a straight flush. %e A143314 a(52)=1 decause there's only one "hand" of 52 cards. %Y A143314 Cf. A002761, A002806, A002834, A002879. %Y A143314 Sequence in context: A140702 A145294 A147520 this_sequence A060056 A140729 A003741 %Y A143314 Adjacent sequences: A143311 A143312 A143313 this_sequence A143315 A143316 A143317 %K A143314 fini,full,nonn %O A143314 1,5 %A A143314 Gerard P. Michon (g.michon(AT)att.net), Aug 06 2008 Search completed in 0.001 seconds