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 In //[[http://askalexander.org/display/13137/Phoenix+051+100/196|The Phoenix]]//, No. 98, Jan. 4, 1945, p. 397, Rusduck published a trick in which cards were dealt alternately face up and face down, and the face-up cards were eliminated. John P. Hamilton, in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/13141/Phoenix/162|The Phoenix]]//, No. 140, Dec. 12, 1947, p. 562, built on Rusduck's elimination procedure. In //[[http://askalexander.org/display/12839/Pallbearers+Review+Vol+5+6/68|Pallbearers Review]]//, Vol. 5 No. 10, Aug. 1970, p. 354, Karl Fulves states that Hamilton named "a development of the deal...the Australian deal."
-The underlying mathematical principle of a random but uniform procedure of elimination dates back at least as far as the ancient Roman practice of decimation.
+Such uniform arithmetic patterns for elimination are very old; e.g., the ancient Roman practice of decimation.
   * [[http://www.conjuringarchive.com/show.php?cat=488|Category in Denis Behr's "Conjuring Archive"]]
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