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This is also explained well by Kevin Spacey in the movie 21.

• timmorgan 18y ago
  Not really. That was just enough to get me to read the Wikipedia article to figure out what the heck they were talking about in that movie. It made the student sound super smart, but most people I know didn't have a clue what they were saying (including myself).
  • dangrover 18y ago
    Yeah. And what was that whole business about the Newton-Rhapson method?
• samuel 18y ago
  Also in a numb3rs episode. And Allen Paulos in one of his books outlines the script of a movie based in this game which could help to interest people in Mathematics.