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Unfortunately, I can't find a reference at the moment, but there are two American mathematicians who perform card tricks in class and one of these tricks uses a
by pvitz 6y ago
Unfortunately, I can't find a reference at the moment, but there are two American mathematicians who perform card tricks in class and one of these tricks uses a de Bruijn sorted deck to allow to cut the deck many times and still be able to do the magic afterwards.
- mangamadaiyan 6y agoI figured one of the two had to be Persi Diaconis, and it looks like I wasn't far off the mark: https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2015/01/mathematics_and_magic_the_de_b.html https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2015/01/mathematics_and... If I did get it right, Ron Graham as the second mathematician makes perfect sense too :)
- pvitz 6y agoThanks, that is exactly the one!