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How to Beat the House and Win at Games

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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The Mathematics of Monopoly

Monopoly was invented by a woman who was fiercely against capitalism. Arena o a caludo was invented to stop people killing other people with tiny bits of lead piping. All the kind of network stuff that we're talking about now wouldn't be round if it wasn't for leonard oyler, because he was playing some fun game. i predict thet behind all this is something which we can broaden out in terms of using n looking at life. I think it's a problem to ask why mathematiciansn't do anything, because you've just let the mathematicians do what they do.

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