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A Problem in Cartophily

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

F G. Maunsell
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I should like to say straightaway that collecting cigarette-cards is not my hobby But recently the manufacturers of the brand of cigarette I smoke started to issue an attractive series of cards and I said to a friend, “I think I shall save these cards until I obtain the complete set of fifty.” He replied, “About how many packets do you think you will have to buy before you get the set?” And this raises an interesting problem in probability which I do not recollect having seen before.

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Research Article
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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 22 , Issue 251 , October 1938 , pp. 328 - 331
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Copyright © Mathematical Association 1938

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Page 328 of note * Durell, and Robson, , Advanced Algebra (Bell & Sons, London, 1937), vol. iii, p. 458 Google Scholar. The result is also given as an example in Chrystal’s Algebra and is there attributed to de Moivre.