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Fibonacci Partial Sums Tricks
Nikhil Byrapuram, Adam Ge, Selena Ge +8
The following magic trick is at the center of this paper. While the audience writes the first ten terms of a Fibonacci-like sequence (the sequence following the same recursion as t…
Fibonometry and Beyond
Nikhil Byrapuram, Adam Ge, Selena Ge +8
In 2013, Conway and Ryba wrote a fascinating paper called Fibonometry. The paper, as one might guess, is about the connection between Fibonacci numbers and trigonometry. We were fa…
Quad Squares
Nikhil Byrapuram, Hwiseo, Choi +9
We study 4-by-4 squares formed by cards from the EvenQuads deck. EvenQuads is a card game with 64 cards where cards have 3 attributes with 4 values in each attribute. A quad is fou…
Card Games Unveiled: Exploring the Underlying Linear Algebra
Nikhil Byrapuram, Hwiseo, Choi +9
We discuss four famous card games that can help learn linear algebra. The games are: SET, Socks, Spot it!, and EvenQuads. We describe the game in the language of vector, affine, an…