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Magic trick with numbers
Parimal Acharjee
“Mathematic is a way to settle in the mind of Mchildren a habit of reasoning.
athematics plays a predominant role in our everyday life and it has become an indispensable factor for the progress of our present- day world. Mathematics is interesting as well as funny. Srinivasa Ramanujan made mathematics popular among common people.
He made substantial contributions to the analytical theory of numbers and worked on elliptic functions, continued fractions and infinite series. He was one of India’s greatest mathematical geniuses.
Ramanujan is remembered for his unique mathematical brilliance, which he had largely developed all by himself. He helped the humankind to give exact interpretation to the ideas and conclusions. In a simple way, he illustrated that mathematic has originated from numbers, and number system is a special field of it, from which other branches of mathematics are developed. According to him, mathematic is a systematized, organized and an exact branch of science. His contributions in mathematics play a vital and unique role in human societies and represent a strategic key in the development of the whole humankind.
To make mathematics more attractive and interesting, two trendy number tricks are presented here. You can baffle and amaze your friends and relatives through these tricks. The straightforward procedures to get the interpretation and the basic logic of the number tricks have also been illustrated. The secrets behind the tricks have alsobeen explained so that you can create your own new number tricks.
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