Math Monday: Playing Cards

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August 15th, 2011 4

By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics

We looked at playing card constructions before in this column, but this one by Nick Sayers is impressively intricate. The 270 playing cards each have four slits, and lock together like the classic IQ Lamp. Each card is forced into a curved form because it locks with a neighboring card at two points which are closer together than a card’s width. Light from an internal lamp escapes dramatically from under these curves.

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4 thoughts on “Math Monday: Playing Cards”

Anonymous says:

August 15th, 2011 at 11:14 pm

How long did this take to build?! It is incredible!
Anonymous says:

August 15th, 2011 at 11:32 pm

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