## Bach’s Music on a Moebius Strip

If you are fond of classical music, then you have probably heard of Johann Sebastian Bach. He was one of the great composers of the Baroque period. His music was known for its intellectual depth, technical command, and artistic beauty (I copied the last sentence from Wikipedia, lol).

But what will surprise you more is how his music is tied to mathematics. Watch the video below of how playing the music backwards and forwards simultaneously can be visualized using a Moebius Strip.

H/T: Open Culture

## How to Create Infinite Chocolate Bars

What would you do if you have a chocolate where you can create infinite chocolate bars from it?

Watch the video below and see if you can explain where did the small bar of chocolate came from. I will discuss the answer in the next post. For now, enjoy thinking while eating your chocolate.

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## The Mathematics of Shuffled Cards

It is said that each time you shuffle a 52-card deck,  each arrangement you make may have never existed in all history, or may never exist again. Why? Because of the enormous number of arrangements that can be made using 52 distinct objects (in this case, cards).

To understand this, we can look at the number of arrangements that can be made with smaller number of objects. Lets start with 3 objects A, B, and C. The possible arrangements are ABC, ACB, BAC, BCA, CAB and CBA. Notice that for the first position, there are 3 possible choices (see figure below). Then, after you made the first choice, there are only 2 possible choices left. And after the second choice, you only have 1 possible choice. This means that the number of arrangements of 3 objects is $3 \times 2 \times 1 = 6$