Comments by "Gavin Tillman" (@gavintillman1884) on "Mathologer" channel.

  1. You’ll be lucky to find a 0.5% house edge on the LV strip. You might find it downtown. Most houses pay 6/5 rather than 3/2 for a blackjack these days, and that ramps up the house edge.
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  2. I learned the theorem at school but not the proof. At uni it was assumed that everyone knew the proof so it wasn’t proven to me there either. I commented to a fellow student that I’d never seen the proof, and he explained your second proof to me. Today at 56 is the first time I saw the first proof!
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  3. You mention 1729 without mentioning its best property.
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