How to implement a dealer class without storing a deck of cards?

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  Even only 52 cards, the permutationIndex where I describe in Explanations section, would be a huge number; it is

Answer 1

You have working - and extremely efficient c# example for The kth Permutation of Order n (aka PermutationIndex) at this very old post:

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Aa302371.aspx#permutat_topic3

For those interested in Combinations topic:

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163957.aspx
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Aa289166(VS.71).aspx

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I suggest that you read through, before going into specific implementation.