PREDICTING BY PILING
Deadline: February, 23rd, 2011, by 11:59:59 p.m.
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1 Project
A few days ago a magical effect based on some mathematical idea was performed in class. The student is asked the following:
- Describe the magic effect carefully. Pay attention to the order in what the piles are picked up.
- Given a card at position x, define a function giving the new position of x when the cards are dealt out only once.
- Given a card at position x, define a function giving the final position of the chosen card as performed in class. Prove by using your function that the magic effect always works.
- What is the situation when the pile with the chosen card is picked up in first place?
- What happens if 27 cards are considered instead of 21? Does the picking-up order matter?
2 Written Paper
Write a paper answering the above questions. If you do it in Spanish, please, make no spelling mistakes. The paper has to be written in correct Spanish or English; it also has to possess clarity of thought. Show me what you know; do not force to search for it through a poorly written paper.
If you copy stuff from the Internet and you do not understand it, I’ll give you zero points.
3 Grading
This projects counts 0.13 of your final grade.
4 Questions and Office Hours
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