Lorayne, Harry: How to Perform Feats of Mathematical Wizardry ©2006 Harry Lorayne, Inc.; New York, NY Hardcover, w/dj, 202 pages

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Comments: (Andrew J. Pinard): Design & Composition by Andrew J. Pinard. Subtitle: They'll Marvel At Your Amazing Number Tricks, Games, Lightning Calculation, Your Magical Knowledge! They'll Think You're A Genius! Also available as an eBook.

CONTENTS

xi Foreword xi

3 Chapter 1
3 Ten Eighty Nine
6 Lightning Calculation
9 It All Adds Up
15 Roots
18 The "Missing Digit"
23 Pascal's Triangle & The Card Pyramid
29 The Fibonacci Series, And More

37 Chapter II
37 Total The Series, Plus
45 Pleasing Combination
51 Nim
54 The Chicken Or The Egg
57 More Moving Matches
60 Ageless
64 Yellow!

69 Chapter III
69 CalendARithmetic
73 CalendARithmetic, Cont'd
76 Stolen From The Calendar
80 Matrix
85 A Unique Number "Property"
88 More "Unique" Numbers
91 "Unique" Finale

95 Chapter IV
95 Wanna See A Card Trick?
98 Pocket Change
100 Magic Squares
104 Magic Squares, Cont'd
109 4×4 Magic Square Breakthrough??
120 The To-And-Fro Magic Square

125 Chapter V
125 Divided We Fall
128 Division Phenomenon
131 Lucky Number
134 Another "Combination"
139 Additional Adding
142 "Real" Adding
146 The Elevator Method

151 Chapter VI
151 Perpetual Calendar
154 Count On Your Fingers
158 Money Talks
161 Mark On My Boot
163 Heads Or Tails
165 Prove It!
169 The Heaviest Digit
171 Times Nines

175 Chapter VII
175 The Memory Magic Square
180 Taelbpah (Alphabet?)
182 Odds And Ends
187 Is A Puzzlement
192 To Square
195 Square-and Piecemeal
198 Finally, All's Square
201 Last Word

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