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The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, October 16, 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner, English, 1775 - 1851
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"Shortly before 7 o'clock last night the inhabitants of Westminster, and of the districts on the opposite bank of the river, were thrown into the utmost confusion and alarm by the sudden breaking out of one of the most terrific conflagrations that has been witnessed for many years past....The Houses of the Lords and Commons and the adjacent buildings were on fire."
So wrote the London Times on October 17, 1834. Turner witnessed the event, along with tens of thousands of spectators, and recorded what he saw in quick sketches that became the basis for this painting. Flames consume Saint Stephen's Hall, the House of Commons, and eerily illuminate the towers of Westminster Abbey, which would be spared. On the right the exaggerated scale and plunging perspective of Westminster Bridge intensify the drama of the scene, which Turner observed from the south bank of the Thames River.


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The Disney Wonder is a ship that is distinguished for its sophisticated design and modern innovation. Along with its sister ship, the Disney Magic, the Disney Wonder was specially constructed with families in mind, combining sleek style with a splash of fun. Today, it is one of the most revered and recognizable ocean liners in the world, inspiring awe wherever it pulls into port.
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With his sights set firmly on yet another World Rally Championship title, KTM factory rider Marc Coma of Spain concentrated his efforts on Day Four of the Sardinia Rally Race on consolidating his second place in the overall standings.
Leading the 4-rally series, Marc Coma only needs to finish second in this, the third leg, to seal the title – if his KTM teammate Ruben Faria finishes at fifth or worse. Faria was in eighth place in the points after Day Four. The final rally in the championship is the Pharaons Rally in Egypt in the autumn.
Riders have been struggling with intense heat on the Italian island during this round and the marathon stage on Tuesday had to be cancelled because of the threat of forest fires. On Wednesday they faced the penultimate day on a circular route that began and finished in Arbatax, a distance of 260 km, including 180 km of timed special. It was the longest stage of the 2012 edition.
As winner of Tuesday's stage, Coma was first out of the start and had to set the pace and blaze the trail for the other riders. Overall leader, KTM rider Jordi Villadoms on the other hand was back at sixth and just needed to follow the leaders. The first part of the stage was very complicated navigation and Coma took the cautious approach and concentrated on bringing the KTM 450 EXC home safely in second to be sure to have a shot at claiming the world title after the third round. He was therefore satisfied to finish in fourth in the stage that also went to Villadoms and to sacrifice another 2.5 minutes to the leader. It was clear that on this occasion there is more at stake for him than the top of the podium at the end of the five-day ride.
Another factor in the race that is playing a major role is that it is much more akin to an Enduro event than a rally, which is why Coma is on the KTM 450 EXC and not his usual KTM 450 Rally bike.
Regardless of what happens on the final day it looks like KTM riders will be well represented on the podium. KTM riders are currently 1-2-3 in the overall standings and there are six riders on the 'Made in Austria' bikes in the top 10!
Overall times after Day Four of Sardinia Rally Race
1. Jordi Villadoms (E), KTM, 10:13.10 hours
2. Marc Coma (E), KTM +5:21 min
3. Alessandro Botturi (I), KTM, +8:16
4. Helder Rodrigues (P), Yamaha, +10:55
5. Paolo Ceci (I), KTM, +13:21
6. Stephane Peterhansel (F), Yamaha, 17:23
7. Joan Pedrero (E), KTM, +18:43
8. Ruben Faria (P), KTM, +19:10
9. Paulo Goncalves (P), Husqvarna, +19:39
Results Day Four of Sardinia Rally Race
1. Villadoms, 2:50.27 hours
2. Barerra Bort (E), Husqvarna, 2:51.54
3. Botturi, 2:52.53
4. Coma 2:53.20
5. Pedrero 2:53.31
6. Ceci 2:53.36
7. Rodrigues 2:55.17
8. Peterhansel 2:55.57
9. Jakub Przgonski (PL), KTM, 2:27.03
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And just to comment on your "The Internet wire communications will finally be safe for children" comment Curtis:
Though it has absolutely nothing to do with this bill…
Thanks to the info. Child pornography is not what I was referring to. Adult pornography production and consumption like with Teri Weigel was the copy+right portion I am referring to.
The Internet will be as censored as television and radio are censored when shown to anonymous people before I cease my lawsuit against GOOG, MSFT, and the FCC.
Copy+rights will be a personal "right" in the United States just as the right recognized in the rest of the Berne Convention Countries of the world.
All visual artist should have the right to control where their visual art is displayed to minors WITHOUT relying on filtration! Anything pertaining to a foreign website applies domestically.- BTW
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So you are a big supporter of censorship by the government apparently.
"Anything pertaining to a foreign website applies domestically.- BTW"
Maybe we need a "great firewall" like China too?
I have to ask about this one too:
"All visual artist should have the right to control where their visual art is displayed to minors WITHOUT relying on filtration!"
What about all those cable channels?
The United States has signed this treaty including Article6bis.
"…(1) Independently of the author's economic rights, and even after the transfer of the said rights, the author shall have the right to claim authorship of the work and to object to any distortion, mutilation or other modification of, or other derogatory action in relation to, the said work, which would be prejudicial to his honor or reputation…"
Simple explanation approved by Congress making US copyrite law unconstitutional for violating the Fifth Amendment and the intentions of the Ninth Amendment. Unconstitutional besides being vague and unenforceable since 1976 when over-broad/vague fair-use exceptions were established.
US Courts will decide by 2012.
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Cable channels….
Who decides what minors view adult material on cable? The government?
Thanks, I see the similarity. Adult material is NOT available on publicly accessible cable unless the cable has Internet wire communications. Adult material is generally subscription and the TV with adult material access by cable is assumed to be monitored by an adult.
Leaving adult material available and accessible on television via cable where a minor may view it is contributing to the delinquency of minors in most US jurisdictions.
The FCC regulates most cable television communications as you can note from the fines that CBS was given for Ms Jackson's 2004 Superbowl wardrobe malfunction .
The Internet is one of the last places for people to freely speak their mind without any recourse or persecution. Controlling the free exchange of idea's and opinions will only slow man kinds ability to perceive the ever changing world around them. For those who support this bill i will remind you that because of the internet, and the way it works. Humanity has never been closer then it is right now……
Humanity has never been able to disclose information regardless of the effect it has on others. Anonymous international communication that is offensive is illegal already but the FCC has not regulated wire communications by calling them instead some mysterious new medium. I agree that it is generally good, but there MUST be regulation as required by law already.
Censor the UnReguLated Internet wiresGame over in a month or two…
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I see rape, murder, and every other imaginable crime on plain old network TV every day. I can but a video game in Toys R' Us and chop peoples heads off all day…
So what needs to be censored on the internet?
If it is copyright infringements why is it that the government is already shutting down any site they want to for that at will now?
I say it is the peoples voice they want to censor.
Regulation is a terrible idea. It should not be the governments job to decide whats offensive, Not to mention Unconstitutional. The damage that could be done by censorship of social media would be catastrophic. Even if they censor the US you cant censor the rest of the world.
It is NOT unconstitutional to regulate the Internet anymore than it is to censor daytime television shows or the Superbowl halftime. An industry-wide five second delay of all live performances ALLOWS CENSORING. It is EXACTLY the government's job to censor according to the Communications Act.The laws requiring "censorship of the Internet" are not hidden or unconstitutional.
See USC 47 §§ 151,152, 230, 231.The public will see the Internet is nothing but a high-powered telegraph wire that the FCC fails to regulate due to a confused, seventy-seven-year-old Supreme Court Justice who called the Internet a mysterious, unique and wholly new medium in ridiculous error.
ACLU v. Reno, United States Supreme Court No. (96-511) (June 1997)
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Considering the internet is world wide, One government should not have the power to censor what it feels as its share of domain names. I mean Honestly man do you really want to live in a world where you post a video that includes a popular song in the backround. It gets a couple thousand hits and all the sudden your being sued by a multi million company? I fail to see your side of the argument and how we will all benefit by this act.
I have heard this outrageous claim and it is ludicrous. The video of the dancing baby should have faced the complainant in court or ignored them. Once in the United States people would stand up for what they felt was right and not just back away and become the wire venue's viral complaint.
Sounds like that is EXACTLY WHAT IS HAPPENING!I am sick of the whining about the dancing baby. ANYONE ELSE?
The case involved idiotic claims by Universal Music and these claims will steer clients away from Universal Music. Oops Well; Appears they are too big to fail just like Chevy et al?
COPYRITES should be limited to the artist's life and 50 years.
So you are saying you do not have to subscribe (pay) for the internet in America?
Are not children ALWAYS supposed to monitored by an adult?
The following sites talk about a reasonable alternative to SOPA and PIPA:
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/196717-lawmakers-circulating-alternate-online-piracy-billWe are getting there. I really hope that both the too-dangerous SOPA and PIPA will be eliminated in favor of this new alternative.
I have requested that Google Inc stop visiting my site and using my photography to sell shit. I asked the same thing from Microsoft Corporation.
They are both ignoring this request.
Go see.
Interesting alternative entirely neuters SOPA because most infringing sites are operated from within the United States. How is it different from the Google Inc censorship policy? A site can be removed from the index because Google doesn't like it. No Due Process exists there at all.
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What do you think you will actually accomplish by giving the government more power over the internet?
Many of my friends sites have been publishing their actual IP for a while now just in case they are erased from DNS by .gov with no due process, like so many sites already have been .
And there is a reason why many avoid Google as much as possible.
Research what info Google gives government on request…
Google DOES NOT remove a site from the search index, just because google doesnt like it. Google removes a site only when its content has proven plagarized material, from another author. The offending website has the opportunity to resolve the problem, and then be reindexed into googles search results.
Websites which just suffer from poor content (and a few other reasonable factors) DONT get DEINDEXED, but their ratings and locations in the customers search results, suffer. This insures that the website author will fix their problems, or suffer the consequences. But The Author has the opportunity to fix the problem, and improve their locations in the customers search results.
Google would not deindex, or penalize a website, just because the content is against Google or googles policies.
Google goes to great extents to study and alter their indexing algorythym, so that freedom of speech isnt oppressed, except for plagarized content.InternetCensorship OPPRESSES freedom and information
Google reserves the right to censor by whim and has de-indexed sites Google Inc didn't like. Wikipedia article "criticism of Google" lists several specific examples.
"We do not de-index sites." From the mouth of Google Inc? A minor tweak of the mysterious algorithm can be the very same thing.
I used robots.txt protocol to have my domain excluded from indexing by Google Inc and Microsoft Corporation. I have sued Google Inc and faced GOOG's legal team for three years wanting OUT of BOTH image searches.curtis neeley site:curtisneeley.com on GOOG.
curtis neeley site:curtisneeley.com on MSFTBoth ignoring my robots.txt for YEARS!
This bill or proposed law is wrong.The internet will not be an entertaining vehicle if this bill is approved.Many companies try to project something and influence people in a way.This while they see their same material used by Internet users for entertaining purposes on the world wide web but with a different kind of educational focus or role.The owners of those companies forget that those people are citizens who in some cases have their own internet pages that they economically maintain and that those people are not looking to have any lucrative interest because of that property.If this is approved the freedom of speech by regular citizens will be affected as people will not be able to use photos,videos or any material owned by the big interest companies because of copyrights.Citizens will have to pay jail for that.It seems that there is a Government concern on how the internet continues to influence the people by using the same freedom of speech used in other communications vehicles.
"the freedom of speech by regular citizens will be affected as people will not be able to use photos,videos or any material owned by the big interest companies because of copyrights."Use of photos,videos or any material owned by ANY other while violating personal rights of the creator of said photos,videos or material violates rights of the person and should NOT happen and this bill does not disturb legal free-speech in any way at all.
Free-speech is NOT impacted the tiniest by not allowing copyrites to be violated as long as copyrites are protected by a person[NOT A CORP].
Copyrites should be personal rights and corporations should not be allowed to have copyrites or be legally treated as a person.
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I think the problem most people, including myself, have with these bills is that it gives the government even more power. It is obvious that they already have the power to shut down websites they deem offensive at will now seeing as how they have already shut down hundreds, without any due process mind you. We have witnessed what more government power under the guise of protecting people has gotten us. Take the Patriot Act for example. Out of all the billions of dollars spent to spy on US what was the result?
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And now we have a "secret interpretation" that no one outside of government can even read yet even with multiple lawsuits to disclose it. How the hell are we expected to abide by a "secret" law that is a secret!
Does that secret law actually give the government the power to murder American citizens without due process? Apparently it does!
I can not see how this law will help most Americans at all Mr. Neeley, and as for your claims that it will protect individuals copyrights, the government already has that power, if they choose to use it.
It seems to me that your fight should be more about big money/corporations controlling our government for their own interests than giving the government even more power that will inevitably used to protect big money in this new age of discontent against government, and their elite masters.
This is an anti-competition law and shouldn't pass committee, let alone come to a vote. It discourages new businesses, despite claims, and tries to solidify existing businesses as the only sources for licensed content. This law favors big entertainment so they no longer have to change their business models to suit the market; instead this law tries to shape the market to suit these entertainment conglomerates. It is a subsidy for the entertainment industry, at it's highest, most ruthlessly capitalist levels. It is bad for the internet, users, web entrepreneurial upstarts and the artists themselves! That and there are ALREADY LAWS THAT PROTECT COPYRIGHTS!
@pavementends42 Ummm – THERE ARE NO US LAWS THAT PROTECT COPY RIGHTS There are artists rights tenuously protected in USC 17 §106A. In the United States USC 17 or the Copy[rite] Act, enshrines the United States government sanctioned copying RITUAL. SOPA is NOT bad for artists although most content is owned by corporations. Please explain your rational for that claim. – if there is one?
It is PRECISELY anti-competition in that keeps content thieves from competing with purchasers of the government sanctioned copy[rite] holders.
I understand your claim and semi-agree with it. The government sanctioned copy[rite] is unconstitutional since 1790 and has fooled most United States citizens and judges into thinking the IP backwards United States recognized the personal right to exclusively control created art.
@pavementends42 it appears you need to read the bill here then comment.
@WasMiddleClass I have served the Attorney General and the Federal Communications Commission.
I have no interest in getting into the finer points of copyright law now.
There are far bigger issues facing most of us now…
I wish you the best on taking on the powers that be. I have done it several times myself.
Many of us are more worried about our voices being silenced, to speak out about our jobs/money/rights/lives being stolen…
Maybe copyrights is yours above…
But no new law will help most now…and probably not you either.
I must say some lawyer friends of mine find it "interesting"…
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[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]I was out on my break when I saw that there was a police chopper looking for someone. They were traversing the neighbourhood off to the northeast and hovering over the train bridge near my office before heading off to the northwest to I-77. There was a spotter perched on one of the skids! VERY exciting!! I was watching this through the monocular that I have in my car. I felt very "Luke in the cut scene from A New Hope". LOL[/FONT]
Actually, they didn't. I made them come out to look and they were astounded! Before coming out, Amanda made some b*tchy off-handed remark about me imagining it, so that filled the Cammie role. LOL
Luke didn't kiss Leia in the cut scene, nor did he sell his speeder in that scene. What kind of geeks are you?!!!
It was mid 70s with a chance of stray clouds today. Supposed to be mid 80s by the weekend.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
"In Brooklyn, a castle, is where dwell I"
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
JediPartner: I saw a helicopter deliver an air conditioning unit to Sears across the street. It was cool. (pun intended - geeze I'm so clever aren't I?)
Right now the sun is on the other side of the earth from California, so you can't see it and everything is dark outside. We call this night time. Another thing that happens is that info-mercials start to come on TV. Does anyone need a Sham-Wow! ?
Man did we have a terrific storm last night. There was water coming into the house under the windows on the north side. What an oogy mess it made.


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I have a colleague who want to go back to programming after 5 years of doing something else. Five year ago he was working with C++ / linux, delphi, and a lot with mSQL . He asked me to help him to go back to programming. I started to support him (in C# and Java) but I see that he is less and less motivated to practice. Probably he is getting frustrated about slow progress or overwhelm by things he had forgotten. I am looking currently for a way how to encourage him. Currently I think about two possible approaches:
- find an opensource project that he can start to work
- set up a project together (e.g., on assembla.com) and try to develop together something that is interesting for him.
Maybe I should advice him to start with script languages (e.g., groovy, jython) that let to program faster and to not write so much boiler code?


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I am interested in magic tricks whose explanation requires deep mathematics. The trick should be one that would actually appeal to a layman. An example is the following: the magician asks Alice to choose two integers between 1 and 50 and add them. Then add the largest two of the three integers at hand. Then add the largest two again. Repeat this around ten times. Alice tells the magician her final number $n$. The magician then tells Alice the next number. This is done by computing $(1.61803398\cdots) n$ and rounding to the nearest integer. The explanation is beyond the comprehension of a random mathematical layman, but for a mathematician it is not very deep. Can anyone do better?
"The best card trick", an article by Michael Kleber. Here is the opening paragraph: "You, my friend, are about to witness the best card trick there is. Here, take this ordinary deck of cards, and draw a hand of five cards from it. Choose them deliberately or randomly, whichever you prefer--but do not show them to me! Show them instead to my lovely assistant, who will now give me four of them: the 7 of spades, then the Q of hearts, the 8 of clubs, the 3 of diamonds. There is one card left in your hand, known only to you and my assistant. And the hidden card, my friend, is the K of clubs." |
This was fascinating for me. Somehow the man takes a bagel and with one cut arrives with two pieces that are interlocked. Whether this qualifies as "magic" I dunno (it's hard to say once the trick's been explained), but it sure seems like it to me. It doesn't hurt that I love bagels, and have the opportunity to perform this with friends/family/non-math people and can teach a little about problems/topology/counter-intuitive facts about the universe. |
Five unrelated items: Mobius stripOne of the best mathematical tricks is what happens when you cut a Mobius strip in the middle. (Look here) (And what happens when you cut it again, and when you cut it not in the middle.) This is truly mind boggling and magicians use it in their acts. And it reflects deep mathematics. Diaconis mind reading trickI also heard from Mark Gorseky this description of a mathematical based card game "Mark described a card trick of Diaconis where he takes a deck of cards, gives it to a person at the end of the room, lets this person "cut" the deck and replace the two parts, then asks many other people do the same and then asks people to take one card each from the deck. Next Diaconis is trying to read the mind of the five people with the last cards by asking them to concentrate on the cards they have. To help him a little against noise coming from other minds he asks those with black cards to step forward. Then he guesses the cards each of the five people have. Mark said that Diaconis likes to perform this magic with a crowd of magician since it violates the basic rule: "never let the cards out of your control". This trick is performed (with a reduced deck of 32 cards) based on a simple linear feedback shift register. Since all the operations of cuting and pasting amount to cyclic permutations, the 5 red/black bits are enough to tell the cylic shift and no genuine mind reading is required." I think there is a paper by Goresky and Klapper about a version of this magic and relations to shift registers. The Link IllusionI heard a wonderful magic from Nahva De Shalit. You tie a string between the two hands of two people and link the two strings. The task is to get unlinked. This ties with what I heard from Eric Demaine about the main principle behined many puzzles (Some of which he manufectured with his father whan he was six!) Symmetry IllusionSometimes things are not as symmetric as they may look. commutators-based magic(I heard this from Eric Demaine and from Shahar Mozes.) If we hang a picture (or boxing gloves) with one nail, once the nail falls so does the picture. If we use two nails then ordinarily if one nails falls the picture can still hangs there. Mathematics can come for the rescue for the following important task: use five nails so that if any one nail falls so does the picture. |
I saw this trick demonstrated at a math camp once. When it works, it is extremely impressive to non-mathematicians and mathematicians alike. Have a volunteer shuffle a deck of cards, select a card, show it to the audience, and shuffle it back into the deck. Take the deck from him, and fling all of the cards into the air. Grab one as it falls, and ask the volunteer if it is his card. 1 in 52 times (this is the deep mathematics part), the card you grab will be the card the volunteer selected. Even most statisticians should be amazed at this feat. Just make sure you never perform this trick twice to the same audience. |
Persi Diaconis and Ron Graham just published Magical Mathematics. The book contains a plethora of magic tricks rooted in deep mathematics. |
The following trick uses some relatively deep mathematics, namely cluster algebras. It will probably impress (some) mathematicians, but not very many laypeople. Draw a triangular grid and place 1s in some two rows, like the following except you may vary the distance between the 1s:
Now choose some path from the top row of 1s to the bottom row and fill it in with 1s also, like so:
Finally, fill in all of the entries of the grid with a number such that for every 2 by 2 "subsquare"
the condition $ad-bc=1$ is satisfied, or equivalently, that $d=\frac{bc+1}{a}$. You can easily do this locally, filling in one forced entry after another. For example, one might get the following:
The "trick" is that every entry is an integer, and that the pattern of 1s quickly repeats, except upside-down. If you were to continue to the right (and left), then you would have an infinite repeating pattern. This should seem at least a bit surprising at first because you sometimes divide some fairly large numbers, e.g. $\frac{5\cdot 11+1}{8} = 7$ or $\frac{7\cdot 3+1}{11} = 2$ in the above picture. Of course, the larger the grid you made initially, the larger the numbers will be, and the more surprising the exact division will be. Incidentally, if anyone can provide a reference as to why this all works, I'd love to see it. I managed to prove that all of the entries are integers, and that they're bounded, and so there will eventually be repetition. However, the repetition distance is actually a simple function of the distance between the two rows of 1, which I can't prove. |
A late addition: The Fold and One-Cut Theorem. Any straight-line drawing on a sheet of paper may be folded flat so that, with one straight scissors cut right through the paper, exactly the drawing falls out, and nothing else. Houdini's 1922 book Paper Magic includes instructions on how to cut out a 5-point star with one cut. Martin Gardner posed the general question in his Scientific American column in 1960. For the proof, see Chapter 17 of Geometric Folding Algorithms: Linkages, Origami, Polyhedra. We include instructions for cutting out a turtle, which, in my experience, draws a gasp from the audience. :-) |
The coffee mug trick Give a coffee mug (full if you're brave) to someone and ask them to rotate 360 degrees without spilling the (real or imaginary) coffee, so that their hand ends up in the same position. This is impossible, so you get to smirk while they contort themselves and become more and more baffled (this works better with more than one person since it turns into a kind of "competition") Finally, take the cup and show that while it's impossible to turn it once (as has been "proven"), it's possible to turn it twice (!) and end up in the same position. Has to do with the fundamental group of SO(3) being $\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}$, and when we require the cup to stay upright we end with a non-trivial loop. |
This trick exploits the thinness of coins. |
You can use hamming codes to guess a number with lying allowed. For example, here is a way to guess a number 0-15 with 7 yes-or-no questions, and the person being questioned is allowed to lie once. (The full cards are here). |
Audience asked to choose an integer from 0 to 1000. Ask to give remainder when divided by 7, 11, and 13 respectively. Magician gives original integer by Chinese Remainder Theorem. Works because 7×11×13=1001. |
Here is a card trick from Edwin Connell's Elements of Abstract and Linear Algebra, page 18 (it can be found online). I always do this trick to my undergraduate number theory class in the first minutes of the first day. A few weeks later, after they've learned some modular arithmetic, we come back to the trick to see why it works. I quote from Connell: "Ask friends to pick out seven cards from a deck and then to select one to look at without showing it to you. Take the six cards face down in your left hand and the selected card in your right hand, and announce you will place the selected card in with the other six, but they are not to know where. Put your hands behind your back and place the selected card on top, and bring the seven cards in front in your left hand. Ask your friends to give you a number between one and seven (not allowing one). Suppose they say three. You move the top card to the bottom, then the second card to the bottom, and then you turn over the third card, leaving it face up on top. Then repeat the process, moving the top two cards to the bottom and turning the third card face up on top. Continue until there is only one card face down, and this will be the selected card." When I do this trick, I always use big magician's cards (much easier for an audience to see), but a regular deck works too. To get to the trick faster, I skip the first part and just pick 7 cards myself, showing them all the cards so they see nothing is funny (like two ace of spades or something). I then spread the cards in one hand face-down and let a student pick one and show it to everyone else but me before I take it back face down. When the student is showing the cards to the class I move the rest of the cards behind me so that before I get the card back I already have the rest behind my back. You need to make sure students at the side of the room won't be able to see what you're doing behind your back (namely, putting the mystery card on the top of the deck), so stand close to the board. Practice this with yourself many times first to be sure you can do it without screwing up. The hard part is remembering to keep the last card you reached in the count on the top of the deck; that same card will be used when you start the count in the next round. If you stick it on the bottom before counting off cards again then you'll mess everything up. For instance, if someone picks the number 3 then I start counting from the top of the deck and say (with hand movements in brackets) "One [put it under], two [put it under], three [turn it over, put it on top FACE UP and stop]. This [show face-up card to everyone] is not your card. [Put it back face-up on top] One [now put it under], two [put it under], three [turn over and put on top FACE UP and stop]. This etc. etc." Connell advises telling people to pick up a number from 1 to 7 but not allow 1. In practice there's no need to tell people not to pick 1. They never do (it's never happened to me). They don't pick 7 either. And if they did pick 1, well, just turn over the top card and you're done! Again, that never really happens. |
Start with a finite abelian group $(G,+)$ in which you are comfortable doing arithmetic. Be sure to know the sum $$g^* = \sum_{g \in G} g.$$ Take a set $S$ of $|G|$ physical objects with an easily computable set isomorphism $$ \varphi : S \longrightarrow G.$$ Allow your audience to remove one random element from $a \in S$ and then shuffle $S$ without telling you what $a$ is. [Shuffling means we need $G$ to be abelian.] Now inform your audience that you are going to look briefly at each remaining element of $S$ and remember exactly which elements you saw, and determine by process of elimination which element of $S$ was removed. Now glace through all the remaining elements of $S$ one by one and keep a "running total" to compute $$ \varphi(a) = g^* - \sum_{s \in S-\{a\}} \varphi(s).$$ Finally apply $\varphi^{-1}$ and obtain $a.$ Note that $\varphi$ is not "canonical" in the sense there are definitely choices to be made. On the other hand in should be "natural" in the sense that you should be very comfortable saying $s = \varphi(s).$ |
Two persons, A and B, perform this trick. The public (or one from the public) chooses two natural numbers and give A the sum and B the product. A and B will ask each other, alternatively, the only single question "Do you know the numbers?" answering only yes or no until both find the numbers. There is a strategy such that for any input and only doing this, A and B will manage to find the original numbers. I have never seen magicians actually performing this, but is perfectly doable. This was a problem in the shortlist of the proposed problem for some international mathematical olympiad. Unfortunately I don't remember which. If someone remembers or finds it. Tell us please. i would also like to know. |
I gave a talk about card shuffling to a general audience recently and wanted to memorise a "random-looking" deck so as to motivate a correct definition of what it means for a deck to be random. Most magicians actually use memory tricks to learn off the deck but I thought it would be much cleverer to order the cards in the obvious way, and then find a recursive sequence of length 52 containing all of 1 to 52. In the end, caught for time I settled on using the Collatz recursive relation with seed 18 --- this allowed me to name off 21 distinct cards effortlessly and when I held up the deck prior to the demonstration, the audience voted that the deck was random. Can anyone think of a suitable recursive sequence with the desired property? We can either take a random-looking order and a "regular" recursive sequence but I think it would be much better to find an easy to compute recursive sequence that "looks random" when using a more canonical order simply because if we can remember a "random looking order" we're pretty much going to have to remember the whole deck --- the problem I'm exactly trying to avoid. PS: I did one of the simpler Diaconis tricks. A deck is riffle shuffled three times, the top card shown to the audience, inserted into the deck, and after laying the cards out on the table the top card can be easily recovered by looking at the descents. The key is that the order of the deck is known beforehand --- a simple demonstration that three shuffles does not suffice to mix up a deck of cards (with respect to variation distance). |
Here's an example of a magic trick that works with high probability, based on a careful analysis of the riffle shuffle, in which an audience member performs a number of riffle shuffles and then moves a single card, and the magician guesses which card has been moved. |
The coffee mug trick is also called the Philipine Wine Trick and should be related to the Dirac String Trick, which you can find by a web search, for example here and also in my presentation Out of Line, where rotations in 3-space are related to the Projective Plane. A knot trick, I am not sure you would call it magic, has been shown to children and academics in many places. It rquires a pentoil knot of width 20" made of copper tubing, about 7mm diameter (made by a university workshop) shown in the following diagram: It also needs some nice flexible boating rope. The rope is wrapped round the $x,y$ pieces according to the rule $$R=xyxyxy^{-1}x^{-1}y^{-1}x^{-1}y^{-1} $$ and the ends tied together, as in the following picture: A member of the sudience is then invited to come up and manipulate the loop of rope off the knot, starting by turning it upside down. This justifies the rule $R=1$. Of course the rule is the relation for the fundamental group of complement of the pentoil, which can, for the right audience, be deduced from the relations at each crossing given by the diagram and can be easily demonstrated with the knot and rope. It is also of interest to have a copper trefoil around to compare the relations. One warning: the use of rope does not really model the fundamental group, so be careful with a demo for the figure eight knot! I did the demo for one teenager and he said:"Where did you get that formula?" This demo knot has been well travelled, for many different types of audience; on one occasion the airline lost my luggage with the rope and I had to ask the taxi from the airport to to stop at a hardware store for me to buy d=some clothesline. I devised this trick for an undergraduate course in knot theory in the late 1970s. |
Not so much a magic trick as a math trick, in that I can prove it works in theory but I have never tried it in practice. Take a very long one-dimensional frictionless billiard table, with a wall at one end. Away from the wall, place a billiard ball with mass $10^{2n}$ for $n$ positive. Between that ball and the wall, place another billiard ball with mass $1$. Then start the heavy ball rolling slowly towards the light one. Of course, they bounce, setting the light one traveling quickly towards the wall, which it bounces off, and then it hits the heavy ball, etc., until all the momentum from the heavy ball has been transferred and it starts rolling away. Assume that all collisions are perfectly elastic. Then at the end of the day, there will be finitely many collisions. Indeed, the number of collisions will calculate the digits of $\pi$, in the sense that there will be $\lfloor \pi \times 10^n \rfloor$ collisions. I prefer this method of calculating $\pi$ much better than the probabilistic one. |
Ask someone to lay out the 52 cards in a deck, face up, in 4 rows of 13 cards each, in any order the person wants. Then you can always pick 13 cards, one from each column, in such a way as to get exactly one card of each denomination (that is, one ace, one deuce, ..., one king). As a trick, it's not up there with sawing a woman in half, but its explanation does require Hall's Marriage Theorem. |
So two points of note. I did not read all the posts above in detail but did do a search for the Faro Shuffle and got no results... So: This is a shuffle where all the cards interweave absolutely perfectly (so a perfect riffle shuffle). There's quite a lot of maths behind this. For instance, 8 shuffles takes you back to the order you started shuffling the cards in. Martin Gardner talked about this a bit in at least one of his SA columns. The problem with the faro shuffle is it takes a long long time to learn... personally well over a year, and that was with the benefit of having been a practicing amateur magician for along time. Still if interested the book to look for is The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley, this really lays the foundations for mathematical faro work... Another trick I came across whilst working towards an Ergodic Theory exam uses the Birkhoff Ergodic Theorem at its core. You can read about it in these notes: http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/~cwalkden/ergodic-theory/lecture22.pdf Owen. |
Here is a simple trick based on group theory. Ask a person to choose four numbers from 1 to 9 and write them in a row on a piece of paper. Pause for a moment and then write a number on a piece of paper without letting the other person see what it is. Turn the paper over and place it on the table. Now ask the person to choose two of the numbers from the list and put a line though them. Ask the person to compute a*b + a + b and put it in the list to replace the two chosen numbers. Continue to do this until there is only one remaining number. Turn over the paper and show that the numbers match. The simplest way of explaining this is to show that a * b + a + b is isomorphic to multiplication using the transform T(x) = x + 1. (a*b + a + b) + 1 = (a + 1)(b + 1). If we denote the operation a * b + a + b as a & b, this means that a & b is commuative and associative, just as multiplication is. For any list of numbers ai, the final number can be computed as the (a1 + 1)(a2 + 1)...(an + 1) - 1. |
Here's another Fibonacci trick, from Benjamin & Quinn's "Proofs that really count". The first part of the trick uses the following well-known Fibonacci identity: $$\sum_{i=1}^nF_i=F_{n+2}-1$$ Indeed, call $x$ the number in row 1 and $y$ the number in row 2. Then for $n \geq 3$, the number in row $n$ is $F_{n-2} x+F_{n-1} y$, where $F_n$ is the $n$-th Fibonacci number. So the number in row 7 is $F_5 x + F_6 y=5x+8y$ and the total is $$x+y+\sum_{i=3}^{10} (F_{i-2} x+F_{i-1} y)= F_{10} x + F_{11} y=55x+88y$$ by the Fibonacci identity mentioned at the beginning. Therefore all the magician has to do to find the total is multiply row 7 by the number 11. The second part of the trick uses an inequality for the freshman sum ;-) of two fractions. That is, given positive fractions $\frac{a}{b}$ and $\frac{c}{d}$ such that $\frac{a}{b}<\frac{c}{d}$ we have: $$\frac{a}{b} < \frac{a+c}{b+d} < \frac{c}{d}$$ Just note that the number in row 9 is $13x+21y$ while the number in row 10 is $21x+34y$. Hence: $$ 1.615 \dots =\frac{21x}{13x} < \frac{21x+34y}{13x+21y} < \frac{34y}{21y}=1.619 \dots $$ |
I would like to thank all the contributors on this page. I have been putting together a new Math-a-Magic show for the 9-12 grade level and have found some fantastic material here. If I get a decent video of the show I'll be sure to post a link here so you can play the "What concept is behind this trick?" game. I have modified some of your ideas severely. For example. Craig Feinstein's suggestion was a commercial effect that asks the volunteer to pick one of a hundred different cities typed out on ten cards. The volunteer finds the city's name on two different cards which the magician looks at casually. You can then instantly tell him the name of the city he has mentally picked. In my version, I instruct him not to ever let me see the city's name on the cards and yet I can still easily predict his choice! Here is my favorite trick based on the deep principal of Set theory. Ok, maybe it is not too deep but the results are astounding! Taking a deck of cards, you mention you have a prediction about these cards. That means it is very important important to give the cards a really random shuffle. You then give your volunteer half the deck and you both shuffle your half decks thoroughly. Tell your volunteer to take a small amount(5-15) of cards from his half of the deck, turn them upside down and give them to you. you do the same to him (doesn't matter how many cards you turn upside down as long as there is some left in your hand) You then both shuffle the cards you have received into the deck in your hands in there upside down state. so at this point both people will have some cards right side up some cards upside down. You will follow the same procedure two more times. It doesn't matter how many or what cards he or you are turning upside down and giving away. After all this is done put both half decks of cards together again (IMPORTANT: turn your entire half deck over when you place it on top of his) Now you spread the cards out across a table top. They should be a seemingly random mix of upside down and rigtside up cards. You then unfold your prediction slip which says something like: 11 cards will be black, 15 cards will be red, 6 will be clubs and 5 will be hearts and the hearts will also form a royal Flush! They will be astounded by your amazingly detailed prediction. What happens is that all the face up cards are the ones that were originally in your half deck. This trick is self working. All you do is to pick out which cards you want in your half of the deck and place them at the top of the deck to start. Then just give him the random bottom half of the deck and you keep the pre-set ones. Any questions? Just email me at firstname.lastname@example.com |
I forgot the historical name for this and I'm pretty sure this is classical and well-known. Consider a circular disk and remove an interior circular region, not necessarily concentric. In this annulus we play the following game. Start at any point $p_{1}$ of the outer boundary and draw a line through this point which is tangent to the inner circle. This line intersects the outer circle at another point $p_2$. Now repeat the same procedure with $p_2$ and get $p_3$. Iterating this procedure ad infinitum we either conclude that these sequence of points are periodic or not. What's true is that the periodicity or lack of it is independent of the starting point $p_1$. I believe there is a proof involving Lefschetz fixed point theorem involving the torus but any details on this and the history of this is more than welcome. |
Peter Suber writes: [Edit: This magic trick does not rely on mathematics -- instead it violates an important mathematical fact, that the trefoil is not unknotted! The Chinese rings have a similar feel, but the mathematics violated (linking number) is less deep.] |
Magician: "Here is a deck of 27 cards. Select one, memorize it, put it back and shuffle at libitum. Now name a number between 1 and 27 inclusive (=: N)." Then the magician deals the cards face up into three heaps. You have to tell him in which heap the selected card lies, and he quickly ramasses the three heaps. This is done three times, then he hands you the deck, and you have to count N cards from its back. The N'th card is flipped over, and it turns out to be the card you have originally selected. |
I hope this is contribution is appropriate; I think that a nice puzzle based on Hamming codes discussed a little here: http://ocfnash.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/yet-another-prisoner-puzzle/ is the following: A room contains a normal 8×8 chess board together with 64 identical coins, each with one "heads" side and one "tails" side. Two prisoners are at the mercy of a typically eccentric jailer who has decided to play a game with them for their freedom. The rules are the game are as follows. The jailer will take one of the prisoners (let us call him the "first" prisoner) with him into the aforementioned room, leaving the second prisoner outside. Inside the room the jailer will place exactly one coin on each square of the chess board, choosing to show heads or tails as he sees fit (e.g. randomly). Having done this he will then choose one square of the chess board and declare to the first prisoner that this is the "magic" square. The first prisoner must then turn over exactly one of the coins and exit the room. After the first prisoner has left the room, the second prisoner is admitted. The jailer will ask him to identify the magic square. If he is able to do this, both prisoners will be granted their freedom |
You may ask the person to encode something by RSA, then you decode it (you have the private key) OR To divide two 40-digit integers and give you the decimal result to 100 digits, you then use continued fractions to find the original fraction (reduced) OR To compute pq and pr where p,q,r are prime, you then find p,q,r by the Euclidean algorithm (no very deep, but it's the best i've got) |
Based on a well known logic puzzle: http://usna.edu/Users/physics/mungan/_files/documents/Scholarship/CoinPuzzle.pdf Modified the process to make it harder for audience to figure out what you did and used cards so that they will not think that you did it by differentiating the surface of the coins. |