2nd Eötvös 1895 Problem 1 n cards are dealt to two players. Each player has at least one card. How many possible hands can the first player have?
There are two choices for each card (player A or player B). So 2 n possibilities. But we must exclude the two cases where one player gets all the cards, so 2 n - 2. 2nd Eötvös 1895 © John Scholes jscholes@kalva.demon.co.uk 11 Oct 2003 Last corrected/updated 11 Oct 03