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Ever since i was very young I always excelled in math and sciences. I also really enjoy the subjects. I love equations and solving problems and working through some extremely difficult large set of equations and simplifying them and solving them(i know, i'm a dork). I studied computer engineering in college thus always having a large chunk of math, science, computer, electronics courses, etc... After graduating i got a job as a computer engineer, and while the amount of work i did with numbers greatly diminished it wasn't gone completely. I recently quit my job and i'm working on starting up a business right now with a friend. And now...I don't sit around all day staring at the tv or anything. I read alot, anything from novels to books dealing with philosophy or physics. But i just feel that the part of my brain that used to occupy itself with numbers and formulas has been asleep for a really long time and the longer it slumbers the harder it'll be to wake it up.
So what do i do? How do i keep that part of my brain working, when there really is no need for it to be? I need to keep the little guy active right?
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Sell your talents as a tutor at the local university. Start up a math lab with bright kids at a nearby high school. Design weird and wonderful geekfest questions for the mental mathbots of Hatrack.
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Aww, you'd be such a good tutor. You taught me to play poker and didn't even get impatient with my ineptness!
edit: and just remember, you're in the perfect financial situation to be my boyfriend. that totally makes up for the temporary loss of AC and Vegas, right?
And even if you do, just refuse to give them your ID. Counting cards is not illegal, depsite what the casinos would have you think. Personally, I don't even consider it unethical, although I'm not capable of it.
Casinos ban card counters on the theory that they are private clubs and can ask anyone to leave they wish to. They must let you cash in your chips first. If they ask you to leave and you don't, or tell you not to come back and you do, they can have you arrested for trespassing. But they can't arrest you for counting cards nor for refusing to give them an ID.
If a police officer asks for ID though, you need to obey instructions immediately. Even if you have the legal rights to stand on, it's not worth the hassle.
Counting cards at black jack is basically the only game in the casino without a house advantage, at least in 4-deck or less games. The real difficulty is adding a "randomizing" function to the bets so you won't be noticed.
The craps pass line bet (or come line, for that matter) with full odds after the point is established is generally the bet with the smallest house percentage other than blackjack w/ card counting. Roulette is a suckers bet, as is pretty much every other bet on the craps table.
Dagonee *Master of the thread derail .
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Indeed, blackjack with card counting even has a small player advantage. There was a famous group of MIT students which exploited it for huge winnings.
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Or, you can do what my dad does: do crossword puzzles. Time yourself. Or, if you want more of a variety, try some of the puzzles from the MIT Mystery Hunt. (Warning: they're hard.) Or check out the National Puzzlers' League.
And there's plenty of recreational mathematics to be found. For example, my cousin Peter Winkler's paper Games People Don't Play.
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