> For increased remaining card estimates to be of full
> value, you need to generate the indexes using the same
> accuracy.

Here is what I was told in an email from a member of the MIT Blackjack Team when I asked about index generation:

"As for our numbers plays, whether you round to the nearest 1/4 deck or 1/2 deck does not affect the true count at which a particular play is appropriate. How accurate your deck estimation simply affects your true count accuracy, not the index numbers themselves. Our numbers simulations calculated the precise CE numbers".

With all due respect Norm, this seems to contradict your comment above. I guess the MIT teams ran their simulations and calculated the CE numbers using EXACT card resolution and then required their BPs to use 1/4 deck estimation to try and get a very accurate TC. You and Don seem to maintain that index numbers must be generated using the same accuracy as your discard estimation to get maximum benefit. If that is the case, howcome the MIT Blackjack Team doesn't take the same approach? They have some guys that are quite brilliant as well! :-)

MJ