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 This variety of divided deck, used for card locations, seems to predate the red-black divided deck by centuries. It appeared in an unpublished manuscript known as //Sloane 424//, c. 1600s, p. 142 of the Pieper translation. Pieper's translation of this anonymous manuscript was published in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/30886/Gibeci+re/142|Gibecière]]//, Vol. 5 No. 2, Summer 2010, p. 141-172. This variety of divided deck, used for card locations, seems to predate the red-black divided deck by centuries. It appeared in an unpublished manuscript known as //Sloane 424//, c. 1600s, p. 142 of the Pieper translation. Pieper's translation of this anonymous manuscript was published in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/30886/Gibeci+re/142|Gibecière]]//, Vol. 5 No. 2, Summer 2010, p. 141-172.
  
-A variant of the arranged division of two groups of values is described in Edem Guyot's //Nouvelles récréations physiques et mathématiques//, Vol. 2, 1769, p. 261: "Recreation 80: To Guess Multiple Cards That Two Persons Have Taken in a Game". In a footnote, it is pointed out that other arrangements may be used for dividing a deck into two distinct groups.+A variant of the arranged division of two groups of values is described in Edem Guyot's //[[http://www.conjuringcredits.com/lib/tpl/credits/files/1769-Guyot-Divided-Deck.pdf|Nouvelles récréations physiques et mathématiques]]//, Vol. 2, 1769, p. 261: "Recreation 80: To Guess Multiple Cards That Two Persons Have Taken in a Game". In a footnote, it is pointed out that other arrangements may be used for dividing a deck into two distinct groups.
  
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