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  • Sneaky Trick Uses Maths Magic To Guess Your Cards

    Sneaky Trick Uses Maths Magic To Guess Your Cards

    Maths is basically magic. So it’s no surprise that a clever use of the Fibonacci numbers — a series of numbers (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, etc.) where each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers — and a super-slick shuffling method can combine for a card trick that makes it impossibly easy…


  • Why Petrol Is Priced In Tenths Of Cents In The US

    Why Petrol Is Priced In Tenths Of Cents In The US

    The practice of pricing fuel with a fraction of a penny is thought to have started around the 1930s. While we can’t be sure who was the first to price fuel this way, it seems to have become relatively commonplace across the United States all the sudden around the same time. So what happened? In…