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What's a low effort, but impressive, party trick to learn? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by chumbalumber@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn, that's neat. I might have to practice that.

I know exactly one party trick based on mathematical group theory, which I have actually used to impress non-mathematicians at a party.

Clearly, we just need more group-based popular toys. I would definitely buy a monster group cube, and then probably get crushed by it falling over on me (how many generators does that thing need, anyway?).

[–] keenanpepper@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/142205/presentation-of-the-monster-group mentions a presentation of the monster with 12 generators.

Creating a physical rotation puzzle that implements the monster group would be quite a task!