A strategy, in pontoon or blackjack, in which a player keeps a mental tally of the cards played in order to calculate the probability of certain cards being dealt and therefore obtain an advantage.

plural of double counting

An error in accounting, probability studies, etc. whereby some object or transaction is counted more than once.

present participle of count cards

(computing) A sorting algorithm that counts how many times each integer key appears in an array and then reorders the array based on those counts.

Any of the rhymes used in counting-out games.

(computing) The technique of storing the number of handles, pointers, or references to a resource such as a block of memory, disk space, or an object, so that the system can determine when the resource is no longer in use.

plural of counting rhyme

present participle of count down

plural of counting measure