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Subject: Re: Help with Deck of cards assignment and getting it to deal...
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On 08/03/2014 05:05 PM, Eric Sosman wrote:

>      Your challenge, then, should you choose to accept it: Write a
> compareTo() method for which AAA77.compareTo(KKKJJ) returns a
> value that is simultaneously positive and negative.  Maybe when
> quantum computing comes of age ...
Noone have asked for any simultaneously positive and negative value.
Since you've thrown out the "total order" term (somewhere in these 
threads) I'll throw "predicate" in there.