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The Strange Math That Predicts (Almost) Anything

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- How many times do you need to shuffle a deck of cards to make them truly random?

How much uranium does it take to build a nuclear bomb? (explosion booming) How can you predict the next word in a sentence?

And how does Google know which page you're actually searching for? Well, the reason we know the answer

to all of these questions is because of a strange math feud in Russia that took place over 100 years ago.

In 1905, socialist groups all across Russia rose up against the Tsar, the ruler of the empire.

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