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This magic trick, though, is actually possible ... 2 piles (THIS IS IMPORTANT because it is what causes the math to help us force the card to the middle of the deck, even if we don't know what ...

The clock trick en español ... is a very simplified form of the same “likely outcomes” math that poker players and casino card counters do. And, in fact, there’s a version of the Kruskal ...

Our next problem shows how to read minds in a card trick. But this trick is strictly mathematical and has some interesting mathematics underlying it. A “mathemagician” prepares a deck of 32 cards by ...

The trick, which was invented by magician Jim Steinmeyer, works because of the wonderful world of math. Basically, the sequence of which you spell out the words strategically moves the card you ...

Then if the selected card is a club add one, diamond add two, heart add three, spade add four. Thank you very much for sending in this magic trick; it’s a lovely piece of maths. I thought it ...

Baker enjoys performing close-up and parlor-style magic, and has a special fondness for card tricks, which allow him to combine his passions for magic and mathematics. His academic interests are in ...

Mathematician, magician and card shark Persi Diaconis of Stanford ... PRISONERS’ CODE | Stanford University researchers used mathematics to break coded messages prisoners were sending to each ...

Jason Davison, a mathematical magician based in London, uses a minor sleight of hand and a few calculations to pull tricks like getting a given card you’ve chosen at any point in a deck you tell ...