most recent 30 from http://mathoverflow.net 2013-05-20T05:48:49Z http://mathoverflow.net/feeds/user/29571 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://mathoverflow.net/questions/11503/does-war-have-infinite-expected-length/115115#115115 tim 2012-12-01T21:21:46Z 2012-12-01T21:21:46Z

<p>While playing a game of war on my pc, after sometime with 7 war between us (I won 3, lost 4), i began to notice patterns in the cards. So, I got out a paper &amp; pencil and started writing down played combinations. Each of us had 26 cards and after the second roung of writing it all down they started repeating. Every two rounds, the same. What are the odds of this?</p>