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Mathematical surprises
- arethuza 16y agoI would include the Diffie-Hellman key exchange algorithm in that list - it is pretty simple but wonderfully counter-intuitive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exchange http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exch...
- mhb 16y agoI've always liked the birthday problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
- Juha 16y agoThat's great list, was glad to see some familiar ones there too. I'd suggest putting up for example your top10 list. It takes a long time to go through all of those and as mentioned, not all are that intriguing.