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From: richard
Date: Fri May 2, 2003 10:01pm
Subject: Re: mindreader Re: [Derren Brown] Dog track thought....
Thanks Holly ( and everyone else who posted ) - maths have never been my
forte..a real life-long defect - but I loved the way MagicTricks presented the
"effect"! As an aside , a reading recommendation -"Innumeracy - Mathematical
Illiteracy And Its Consquences" by John Allen Paulos published by Penguin -
sounds incredibly dull but is quite the opposite , especially chapters 2 & 3 "
Probability & Coincidence" & "Pseudoscience" respectively - the latter chapter
dealing with subject of Astrology is worth the price of the book on its own!
TFFN & Fanks Again U All!
Rich
-----Original Message-----
From : "Holly "
To : derrenbrown@y...
Date : 02 May 2003 20:45:46
Subject : mindreader Re: [Derren Brown] Dog track thought....
I had this sent to me a couple of weeks ago to...when you think about
>it it's the kind of trick you learn when you learn the 9 times table.
>
>~Holly
>
>--- In a previous message, Paulo Romani
>wrote:
>> I had this sent to me the other day - it's really clever indeed!
>> It's a mathematical forumula and the grid changes each time so that
>any
>> combination of the numbers will add up to give a number with the
>shape that
>> the computer forces you to choose.
>>
>> on 2/5/03 6:05 PM, richardat
>> richardwrote:
>>
>> Here's another puzzle - click on to
>www.magictricks.co.uk/mindreader ; its
>> probably based on some mathematic formula(e) , but fun -
>interested to know
>> if any-one can work it out.
>> TTFN
>> Rich
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> >From : Paulo Romani
>> To : derrenbrown@y...
>> Date : 02 May 2003 12:43:01
>> Subject : [Derren Brown] Dog track thought....
>> I think it was mystery Dale who made the point about the machine not
>> >allowing payment without a valid ticket. Also, the machine would
>display
>> >the exact amount payable.
>> >It must have been a ticket switch, as how would the lady know how
>much to
>> >pay? I don't know much about gambling, but there's obviously not
>a set rate
>> >for winning. The amount must have been on the screen.... I will
>watch again
>> >anyway.
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