Questions about Tableau message.


R. Clayton (rclayton@monmouth.edu)
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  Is the Ci = 0 card for pile boundaries 2 bytes?

Yes.

  Is there a final Ci = 0 card after the last pile?

No.

  In the message frame definition diagram, Cn is at the position 8n-1, 8n.
  What exactly does 'n' represent?

Yes, that was messed up. There are 52 cards in a tableau. If the tableau has
P piles, there will be P - 1 separator cards. The total number of cards (or,
perhaps more accurately, card positions in the message) is n = 52 + P - 1.
There's an overhead of six bytes per message; the 52 tableau cards take up 52*2
bytes; the separator cards take up 2(P - 1) bytes.

This has been fixed in the project page; thanks for pointing it out.



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