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Jnana New user 59 Posts |
Hi guys, in my reading I came across a comment about a Bert Harding Stack. Never heard of it before. Can someone give me some details. Thanks Tony
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ddyment Inner circle Gibsons, BC, Canada 2499 Posts |
You'll find a brief discussion of Bart Harding's stack in my essay on Full-Deck Stacks, which you can read on-line at The Deceptionary. Go to the "Information" section.
... Doug
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Jnana New user 59 Posts |
Doug, Thank You for the link. I had no idea about it. I have just looked at it and plan to go back right now and really get into it. Tony
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Jon Allen V.I.P. England 1771 Posts |
I was re-introduced to the Bart Harding stack. There is a bit of mathematical calculation but if numbers are your thing then it is excellent. It will stand up to a lot of scrutiny. It is very good for both findig the position of a named card AND knowing the card at a named position.
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peterscarlett Regular user England 137 Posts |
Alan Shaxon has published a booklet "The Bart Harding Card System incorporating Alan Shaxon's 'Name-a-Card' which is available from me. For details go to http://www.peterscarlett.com/html/produc......_16.html
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MarkFarrar Veteran user U.S.A. 376 Posts |
Whilst the Bart Harding Card System is generally reckoned to be one of the better ones, I still don't think you can beat a memorised deck (i.e. where you know the position of each card instantly), and it really isn't as hard as you think!
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ddyment Inner circle Gibsons, BC, Canada 2499 Posts |
Mark commented:
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Whilst the Bart Harding Card System is generally reckoned to be one of the better ones, I still don't think you can beat a memorised deck... This is a false dichotomy. Any arrangement of cards can be memorized, thus creating a "memorized deck". And there are strong arguments for using an algorithmic stack like Harding's as the basis for doing exactly that. There is a lengthy discussion of this issue in my previously-mentioned essay on Full-Deck Stacks (which can be read on-line at The Deceptionary (in the "information" section). This whole idea that am algorithmic stack is somehow different from a memorized deck is quite popular, and quite wrong. ... Doug
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Jon Allen V.I.P. England 1771 Posts |
Mark, with a purely memorised stack, how easy is it to know the position of a card if it is named as opposed to the name of a card is a position is named?
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