I would want to ask you why was this a split pot.
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In Texas Hold'em poker, there are some cases where a particular card, often called kicker, acts as a tiebreaker between players to determine who wins the pot, or if the pot has to be shared.  For some combinations such as three or four of a kind, there is no doubt: the kicker is the 5th card of the chosen combination, and determines the winner.  Example     Alice has 7 and 10   Bob has 7 and K   On the board are 7, 7, 2, 3, 4   In that case, both have a three of a kind. But because Bob has a king and Alice only a 10, he wins.  Most of poker websites explaining the rules clearly mention the role of the kicker applying to three of a kind and double pairs. But much fewer say something about colors, straights and full houses, and I found many contradicting answers. I also asked the question to some used online poker players and they also gave me contradicting answers.  I have tried to search for official tournament rules, but most of them only explain what happens with bad behaviors, bad deals, incorrect or confusing betting, showing cards when you shouldn't, acting when it's not your turn, etc. without mentioning subtleties about combinations at all.  To simplify my question, I will take three examples; I think it's better to start with examples before getting to the general answer if one exists. So, what's happening in the following 3 examples? Could you give a more generalized answer?  Example 1 - Flushes     Alice has 2&clubs; and 3&clubs;   Bob has 4&clubs; and 5&clubs;   On the board are 6&clubs;, 8&clubs;, 10&clubs;, 2&hearts;, 5&diams;   Contradicting answer 1: it's a tie, because the highest card included in the flush is the 10, which everybody chooses to include in their 5 showdown cards. Contradicting answer 2: Bob wins, because he has the greatest private card that is part of the flush  Example 2 - Straight     Alice has 6 and K   Bob has 6 and J   On the board are 4, 5, 7, 8, 10   Contradicting answer 1: it's a tie, because the greatest card in the straight is the 8 for both Alice and Bob Contradicting answer 2: Alice wins, because she owns an extra king, compared to the jack of Bob  Example 3 - Full house     Alice has 3 and 7   Bob has 3 and 6   On the board are 3, 3, 2, 2, 5   Contradicting answer 1: it's a tie, because one is supposed to choose only five cards to make a combination, and a full house is already five cards. There couldn't be any kicker, and thus their showdowns are strictly equals. Contradicting answer 2: Alice wins because of her extra 7, compared to the 6 of Bob  Thank you very much for your answers.  Note: I'm unable to post next to you, so I edit my own post; strange not be able to answer to an answer.  Ok, So if I summarize what you are saying :   In the flush case, Bob wins because at some point, their hand differs. Technically, I can continue comparing the highest private card to decide who wins. I had it correct. In the straight case, if the highest card of the straight is public, then it's technically always a tie, no matter what the players had as second private card (asuming that only one of the two cards was part of the straight). In a full house if both players have the same triplet and the same pair, it's always a tie, no matter what the players had as second private card (assuming again that only one of the two was part of the full house).   Please confirm me that what I summarized is correct.  Thank you for your answer.
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Is it possible in circuit design to split like say a temperature sensor line reading into 2 wires, and read by 2 different system/circuitry? My motive is to tap the signal line in a safe way without affecting or disrupting the other system functioning.
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I was asked this question at an interview and had no answer. Can anyone here explain?
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Problem Stack Overflow receives about 15,000 new questions a day - not counting those that are deleted within a few minutes of being posted. As described in  there are really too many for experts to get a good look at, a lot of bad questions aren't receiving the right type of exposure to janitorial effort, and a lot of good questions aren't receiving the right type of exposure to expertise. Past efforts to resolve the problem When this problem first reared its head the fix was to customize the home page (hot questions) and show questions the user had a likelihood of understanding and answering, based on previous site activity, in addition to those the user marked as interesting. When questions started falling off the front page before finding an answer, we got the community user to 'bump' unanswered questions occasionally in the hopes that someone who could and would answer would come along and happen to see it for the brief time it remained on the home page. Next step: splitting? I believe we've outstripped ourselves. Is there any merit to the idea that splitting the site up in some way to cater to different programming communities or to different programming experts would alleviate this problem? Specific implementations aren't the point of this discussion There are a million ways we could &quot;split&quot; Stack Overflow, and the discussion(s) surrounding that would be exceptional in length and thoughtfulness. Endless discussions on what loosely established communities exist in the programming world, and endless discussions on how to effect the split, whether simple (aggressive filtering of the hot page to only topics a user has successfully answered in the past) to moderately complex (subdomains with aggressively filtered tags, a subdomain for each language, or community, etc), to actually creating a new area51 proposal for each community, forcing them through the process, and building real &quot;new&quot; sites. This doesn't even approach the questions surrounding reputation issues and so forth. It is a very interesting set of questions that we could spend days and weeks yammering on about, but How Should It Be AccomplishedTM is a different issue from this discussion, so please try to limit answers and comments to what positive effects can be gained from a split of some sort, and what negative effects might be experienced due to a split. Is a split worthwhile? Keep in mind, however, that I'm using the term &quot;split&quot; very loosely. It might be a UI tweak, or it might be , and never the twain shall meet between the resulting sites. I don't know. If your thoughts on positive and negative effects depend on the type of split, assume the split that you believe provides the most positive and fewest negative effects, and describe it very briefly (two sentences at most...) so readers are on the same page as you. However, if you can, try to discuss this at a higher level where the implementation shouldn't matter. It wouldn't be a complete fix, or resolve the situation completely, but would it be helpful? Supporting information There are over five million questions on Stack Overflow. Of those, . That's after excluding closed, migrated, or duplicate questions. Of those that have answers, only 51% have more than one answer. I believe the premise, that Stack Overflow is overburdened and isn't doing as well as it could be at answering questions, isn't false. If it is working as well as it should be, and these 500,000 unanswered questions are outliers, then nothing needs to be done. If it isn't working as well as it could be, could splitting it be a solution, or not?
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The help centre’s  is linked in many prominent places guiding users on how to ask questions. However, with respect to too broad question  contains only the following line:     Your questions should be reasonably scoped. If you can imagine an entire book that answers your question, you’re asking too much.   This fails to capture the case that a question asks multiple questions (that are sufficiently independent to be asked separately) &mdash; which is also bad and  but does not necessarily mean that an entire book is needed to answer the questions.  As this is a common problem, I propose that a respective sentence is added to address this issue, e.g., something along the lines of:     Also do not ask multiple questions at once unless you expect their answers to overlap considerably.
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was genuine at the time, but I realised that  gave the right advice, but required me to restart my Linux (which wasn't mentioned in the solution).  It's a bit of a  question and  points to me not deleting it.  But it seems hugely self-aggrandizing to accept my own answer. Should I?
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The Wikipedia article on Shamir's Secret Sharing says to that to have information theoretical security the splitting algorithm should be evaluated using finite field arithmetic on the field $\rm{GF}(p)$ such that $p&gt;n,p&gt;S$ where $n$ is the number of shares and $S$ is the information to be shared. It suggests that on the one hand $p$ should be large because an attacker knows that $S\in\mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z}$. It also suggests that $p$ should not be too large because an attacker knows that as $p\uparrow$ $\rm{p}\{f(x)\bmod p = f(x)\}\uparrow$. How should one choose the best value of $p$ and be confident about choice?   implementation splits $S$ into $i$ pieces such that $\forall \,i,\,S_i\in\rm{GF}(257)$. I do not understand a specific reason to use $p=257$ over any other prime number. For instance the elements $S_i$ could be stored in in an 8 bit value if $p=251$ was chosen.
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What's going on here? I'm trying to apply a normal edge split with a subdivision to make it look high poly with good edges. But when I applied it on this model it did this.
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Sometimes I come across a question on SO that is actually a number of questions all in one. If these &quot;sub-questions&quot; are closely related, it's not a problem. But if they are only weakly related (or not at all) it gets ugly. I'm now (ironically or hypocritically) going to ask a few questions of my own for the community to respond to:  Do you consider a question made up of a number of weakly-related sub-questions &quot;inappropriate&quot;? Why or why not? How many is too many sub-questions? What do you think is the best way to deal with such questions?  As an example,  I had some discussion about with another user. I will add a more complete version of my response in an answer below, but in short I felt that this question should be closed and many of the questions asked separately.
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This is a problem that has haunted me for more than a decade. Not all the time - but from time to time, and always on windy or rainy days, it suddenly reappears in my mind, stares at me for half an hour to an hour, and then just grins at me, and whispers whole day: "You will never solve me..."  Please save me from this torturer.  Here it is:  Let's say there are two people and a sandwich. They want to share the sandwich, but they don't trust each other. However, they found the way how both of them will have a lunch without feeling deceived: One of them will cut the sandwich in two halves, and another will choose which half will be his. Fair, right?    The problem is:  Is there such mechanism for three people and a sandwich?    EDIT: This was roller-coaster for me. Now, it turns out that there are at least two books devoted exclusively on this problem and its variations:          Yesterday, I was in a coffee shop in a small company. We ordered coffee and some chocolate cakes. As I was cutting my cake for my first bite, I felt sweat on my forehead. I thought, 'What if some of my buddies just interrupt me and say: Stop! You are not cutting the cake in a fair manner!' My hands started shaking in fear of that. But, no, nothing happened, fortunately.
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I remember Jeff saying, when they announced Server Fault, that it was going to be possible to move questions between sites. I'd find that feature very nice as since then I've found at least 10 questions on either site that belonged to the other one.
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Is it better to split my units to siege multiple counties at once, or does a stack wear down the defenders quicker?
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This question has been asked several times in similar (yet often slightly different) ways.  The general consensus seems to be that it's best to ask multiple questions individually in multiple Question posts so that each can be addressed separately. This is as it should be...in general (and in theory!). See related posts for some context and discussion:        In practice, however, it can be more useful to ask a few similar questions if they work together to express a single fundamental concern.   I propose that there are some situations when it is best to ask several questions together, rather than in multiple posts.  For example, sometimes the question-asker finds it difficult to ask something in one question and instead asks it in two or three similar questions to "beat around the bush". This often helps the poster express their fundamental concern more clearly or thoroughly and helps the community understand what the poster is thinking, and why.   Here are a few examples of multiple questions used effectively in a single post:        In these examples, answering one of the questions almost requires answering one of the accompanying questions as well. For this reason, it's better for all if the questioner and answerer each ask and answer these related questions together. Importantly, it also makes the question a much better resource for somebody who stumbles on that that question later, or has a similar question. As pointed out in , asking a cluster of questions can help distinguish one question from a near-duplicate and avoid an incorrect flagging as a duplicate.  In other cases (such as ), it's probably best to split the questions into multiple posts, but the end result can be a highly-useful repository of knowledge that is a "one-stop-shop".   I'm not satisfied with some SX users demanding separate posts for similar questions if the questions are essentially expressing the same concern. I'm also not satisfied with the prevalence of posts with multiple, disparate questions.   My question is this:    When is it okay to post multiple questions?  How can we distinguish between multiple questions that ought to be split vs. multiple questions that work together to express a single fundamental concern?  What guidelines or standards can we give and enforce for the community?    This is different than the related posts I've seen because I'm looking for guidelines. Whereas  was asking about how the user should frame his questions in the future, I'm asking what the SX guidelines should be.
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When Apple was in the high $600 or so range, it split 6 times and made it more affordable to purchase more shares for less, even though the value was technically the same. I see companies like Google are extremely high per share and am wondering why or why not they would or wouldn't split their stock right now.
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My reputation rating on SO took this hit an hour ago, and it is due to what appears to be the simultaneous deletion of multiple questions.  I am uncertain why it happened, am concerned, and would appreciate an explanation.  Going to  shows that it was removed due to moderation.  Was a script run deliberately, or were we hit with a question deletion attack; what happened?  -12     today -2  1 hour ago  removed     How to send a 2d Vector over UDP in c++ -2  1 hour ago  removed     How do I use the Eclipse debugger to debug a Java application? -2  1 hour ago  removed     PHP string error; inconsistency with local and server -2  1 hour ago  removed     Unable to start the MySQL service after a server migration -2  1 hour ago  removed     How to use Java to print a text file on a ticket printer? -2  1 hour ago  removed     How can all of the ZBrush Obj files be imported to make a complete model?
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Sometimes, when I answer a question on Stack Overflow, I have two different answers that are equally valid. This happens most when answering architectural questions where there are many valid ways to solve a problem.  Is it better to put each alternative into a single answer, or put each alternative in its own answer?  Posted each alternative separately will allow the voting system to float the best answer to the top, but I don't want to be accused of rep whoring by "flooding" a question with answers.  What's your opinion? One or two answers?
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Question: Can you provide an example of a claim where the base case holds but there is a subtle flaw in the inductive step that leads to a fake proof of a clearly erroneous result? [Note: Please do not answer with the very common  example.]  Comment: Sometimes inductive arguments can lead to controversial conclusions, such as the ,  and a host of other paradoxes. However, I am interested in examples of a more mathematical nature (as opposed to linguistic) where the inductive argument is subtly flawed and leads to erroneous conclusions.   Note: If you provide an answer, please do so in a way similar to how current answers are displayed (gray out the flaw so people can be challenged to discover it).