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Persi Warren Diaconis: The Power Of Magic

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Magic is around us every day even in math class there is magic that makes the world more beautiful. Math is involved in many aspect of magic more than you would ever believe Persi Warren Diaconis was born January 31, 1945. Persi is an American mathematician and former professional magician. Persi was one of the people who proved one of these points. Magic has been around for many centuries. Many people have been executed, praised, and sent away from their homes because of their magic. Magic is the power of apparently influencing the course of events by using mysterious or supernatural forces. The term "magic" etymologically derives from the Greek word mageia. Magic tricks demonstrate illusion, randomness, and probability Before …show more content…

= 24 ways of showing 4 given cards in order would not be enough to differentiate among the remaining 48 cards of the pack. However, since we may choose what card is offered for guessing, we have an additional choice among 5. The resulting 120 possible courses of action are more than enough to convey the relevant information. Here's one practical way to do so: Consider two cards of the same suit (among 5 cards, at least one such pair exists). Let's call them the base card and the hidden card, in whichever order makes it possible to go from the base card to the hidden card by counting at most 6 steps clockwise on a circle of the 13 possible values. (King is followed by Ace, Ace is followed by 2, 3, 4, etc.) We offer the hidden card up for "guessing". By revealing the base card first, we are telling the suit of the hidden card and we also set the point where a count of up to 6 "clockwise" steps is to begin to determine the hidden card. The order in which the remaining 3 cards are presented can be used to reveal this count, as there are 6 possible permutations of 3 given cards. Using some agreed-upon ordering of the cards in a deck, we hold a high card (H), a medium card (M) and a low card (L). Some arbitrary code is used,

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