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Plus Advent Calendar Door #22: Magic!

Submitted by mf344 on December 20, 2010
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Oh, Christmas is so magical! But of course magic often boils down to being surprised. Find out how mathemagicians trade off the fact that you can usually predict precisely the outcome of doing something in mathematics, but only if you know the secret beforehand. Here's for some maths and magic!

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