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The mind-bending world of nontransitive dice

jeudi 4 juillet 2024, 01:50 , par BoingBoing
This post originally appeared in my newsletter, The Magnet.
Jack Vance's Tales of the Dying Earth trilogy is set billions of years in the future when our sun is a red orb on the verge of blinking out. Earth's few thousand remaining inhabitants practice different kinds of magic, including a 'strange abstract lore' called 'mathematics':

'Within this instrument… resides the Universe.

— Read the rest
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