Math + Magic
Magic, the controlled ordering of patterns, is the perfect UX for Math, the science of patterns.
“As it turns out, you have to shuffle seven times before a deck becomes truly scrambled. Not only that, the cards become mixed in a highly unusual way: The amount of randomness in the deck does not increase smoothly. The first few shuffles do little to disturb the original order, and even after six shuffles, you can still pick out distinctly non-random patches. But right around the seventh shuffle something remarkable happens. Shuffling hits its tipping point, and the cards rapidly decay into chaos.”
(via Book Review: Magical Mathematics - WSJ.com)
