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| Title |
| A Very Mathematical Card Trick |
| Authors |
| Carlos Pereira dos Santos, Jorge Nuno Silva, Pedro Duarte |
| Abstract |
Andy Liu proposed a very interesting card trick whose explanation is based in the well-known Hamming codes. In this work, a performance for the same trick based in NIM mental calculation, is presented. A similar idea is also useful to analyze the game TOE TACK TRICK proposed by Colm Mulcahy. |
| Keywords |
| mathematical card tricks, Hamming codes, NIM |
| Milestones |
| Published: 2014/09/23 |
| Author Details |
| Carlos Pereira dos Santos cmfsantos@fc.ul.pt Center for Linear Structures and Combinatorics, University of Lisbon, Portugal Jorge Nuno Silva jnsilva@cal.berkeley.edu University of Lisbon, Portugal Pedro Duarte pduarte@ptmat.fc.ul.pt University of Lisbon, Portugal |