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-This variety of divided deck, used for card locations, appears to predate the red-black divided deck by centuries. It is described in "Sloan 424"estimated to have been written in the 1600s; see //[[http://askalexander.org/display/30886/Gibeci+re/142|Gibecière]]//, Vol. 5No. 2, Summer 2010, p. 142It also appears in //Ein Spiel Karten// by RP., Prague1853, Part II, item 4, p. 48 of the Pieper translation, titled "The Quickly Found Cards"And Reinhard Müller reports finding the description of divided pack (nature of division not stated) in //Verschiedenes zum Unterricht und zur Unterhaltung für Liebhaber der Gaucheltaschedes Magnetismus, und anderer Seltenheiten// by Hofrath von Echershausen, München, 1791.+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 It appeared in an unpublished manuscript known as //Sloane 424//c. 1600s, p. 142 of the Pieper translation.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. 
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 +A variant of the arranged division of two groups of values is described in Edem Guyot'//[[http://www.conjuringcredits.com/lib/tpl/credits/files/1769-Guyot-Divided-Deck.pdf|Nouvelles récréations physiques et mathématiques]]//Vol. 21769, p. 261: "Recreation 80: To Guess Multiple Cards That Two Persons Have Taken in a Game"In footnoteit is pointed out that other arrangements may be used for dividing a deck into two distinct groups.
  
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