Numbery Card Trick - Numberphile
Can Matt implant numbers into Brady's brain - or more likely, is this just a simple card trick? Keep watching to the end! More links & stuff in full description below ...
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MATT PARKER: All right. I'm going to show you a math card trick. It is a genuine math trick, there's no sleight of hand, there's no YouTubery. It's not a sneaky edit or anything like that. Everything you see is the whole trick. It's nothing else. And also because it is a math card trick, it will involve a lot of tedious counting. So this is how this is going to work. I have a normal deck of cards, there are all 52 cards in there. I'm going to look through. What I'm going to do is pick one of the cards and memorize where it is in the deck. So I'm going to pick one of these cards, and then what I'm going to do is count how many cards are on top of it. And I'm going to remember both the card I'm thinking of, and the number of ca...
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MATT PARKER: All right. I'm going to show you a math card trick. It is a genuine math trick, there's no sleight of hand, there's no YouTubery. It's not a sneaky edit or anything like that. Everything you see is the whole trick. It's nothing else. And also because it is a math card trick, it will involve a lot of tedious counting. So this is how this is going to work. I have a normal deck of cards, there are all 52 cards in there. I'm going to look through. What I'm going to do is pick one of the cards and memorize where it is in the deck. So I'm going to pick one of these cards, and then what I'm going to do is count how many cards are on top of it. And I'm going to remember both the card I'm thinking of, and the number of ca...
