The mind-bending world of nontransitive dice
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This post originally appeared in my newsletter, The Magnet.
Jack Vance's Tales of the Dying Earth trilogy is set billions of years in the future when our sun is a red orb on the verge of blinking out. Earth's few thousand remaining inhabitants practice different kinds of magic, including a "strange abstract lore" called "mathematics":
"Within this instrument… resides the Universe.
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