> Sorry about the SCORE not capitalized.

You're forgiven.

> This means generating strategy departure indices using
> full decks instead of half decks.

Yet again, I desperately ask: When you used the FULL decks, did you allow for half-deck PRECISION, such as 1.5 FULL decks, 2.5 FULL decks, etc.?

> If we were to
> generate Hi Opt II indices with half decks, the
> integers would be compressed.

Hi-Opt II is a level-2 count similar to the RPC. It is perfectly acceptable to use half-deck generation of indices and TC reckoning when you play.

> For example, I know that when generating strategy
> departure indices on a level 1 system using 1/2 decks,
> the indices end up "compressed" into a
> narrower range.

Right. And that's bad. It's not bad for level-2 counts, as this is the equivalent of using full decks for level-1 counts.

> "Because this is DIFFERENT. You're now dividing
> by quarter-decks instead of half-decks. You need to
> stay with half-decks!"

> Even though on pg. 137 of PBJAAB Revere's chart shows
> to multiply the RC by 2/3 when 3/4 deck is remaining,
> and then multiply by 2 when 1/4 deck is remaining?

The above are HALF-DECK conversions!! 3/4 of a deck remaining are 3/2 HALF decks. So you divide by 3/2, which means multiply by 2/3. You're making the same mistake again. If you divide by WHOLE decks, you're allowed to divide by 2.5 such WHOLE decks. If you divide by HALF decks, you're allowed to divide by, say, 1.5 such HALF decks. You desperately need to understand this.

> Isn?t Revere also making the mistake of using quarter
> deck precision on a system where he generated indices
> using 1/2 decks?

NO! See above. Quarter-deck precision is different from GENERATING the indices by using quarter-decks! He used half-decks to generate them 9with 1/4-deck precision), and he plays the game by using half-decks to reckon the TC, but with quarter-deck precision.

> So when I?m playing 1 deck games, I should divide by 2
> until I get to one half deck remaining, and then
> divide by 1 when one half deck remains? And skip the
> 3/4 deck and 1/4 deck remaining calculations?

No. Do them as outlined above. (I can't write that article soon enough! :-))

Don