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Perfect Shuffles

Posted on June 26, 2019 by Samuel Nunoo

We know from the Fun Fact Seven Shuffles that 7 random riffle shuffles are enough to make almost every configuration equally likely...

Posted on June 26, 2019 by Samuel Nunoo

Here’s a very quick way to generate the square root of N. Let A0=N. Then generate a sequence of numbers A1, A2,...

Posted on June 26, 2019 by Samuel Nunoo

Take a mug that has a handle, and fill it with coffee. Hold the mug in your hand. Now, without...

Posted on June 26, 2019 by Samuel Nunoo

Take N equidistant points on the unit circle. Pick one of those points, then draw chords from it to all...