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Card Games Unveiled: Exploring the Underlying Linear Algebra

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Abstract

We discuss four famous card games that can help learn linear algebra. The games are: SET, Socks, Spot it!, and EvenQuads. We describe the game in the language of vector, affine, and projective spaces. We also show how these games are connected to each other. A separate section is devoted to playing Socks with the EvenQuads deck and vice versa.

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@article{arxiv.2306.09280,
  title  = {Card Games Unveiled: Exploring the Underlying Linear Algebra},
  author = {Nikhil Byrapuram and Hwiseo and Choi and Adam Ge and Selena Ge and Tanya Khovanova and Sylvia Zia Lee and Evin Liang and Rajarshi Mandal and Aika Oki and Daniel Wu and Michael Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.09280},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

21 pages, 13 figures

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