I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for the drive to work.

Okay, so today's topic is math in magic. Yes, math. So I'll begin by telling a little story,

which was, I don't know whether this was junior high or high school, probably was junior high,

where I was in some math class and I was frustrated by whatever the math was.

And I'm like, why do I have to take so much math? When am I going to use math?

Because I was sure that I was going to grow up to be a screenwriter. That's what I wanted to be.

And I'm like, I have to like count pages and my salary. That's it.

I don't need math.

I don't need math.

But I took math classes nonetheless.

And interestingly, I now have a job with a lot of math.

So I didn't interview not so long ago with a podcast called Working.

And on it, one of the topics that came up was how much math we had, and he was fascinated by it, and I realized it might be an interesting podcast topic, because I'm not sure if it's

obvious how much math there is in the making of magic.

There's a crazy amount of math.

And so today, I'm going to try to convince you that that math class that you

took or are currently taking has some value if your goal is to ever make magic. So I thought

interesting, just a different way to look at magic, talk about a different aspect of magic.

I know we, I always examine magic design from many angles, but I've not examined it

from the math angle.

So today I thought

I would talk about

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