An ancient Chinese math puzzle shows how to win at cards, horse races and gerrymandering
A stratagem that dates back two millennia leads to a math puzzle that took 30 years to solve
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Sun Bin, allegedly descended from The Art of War author Sun Tzu, was a legendary Chinese military strategist who lived more than 2,300 years ago. After one king imprisoned and tortured him, forcing him to use a wheelchair for the rest of his life, he rose to fame as a military advisor for a rival king and lived to record two great victories against his former captor.
One of Sun Bin’s greatest exploits came not on the battlefield but on a racetrack. Like his supposed ancestor, who wrote, “Warfare is a way of deception,” Sun Bin discovered a “way of deception” in horse races that can be boiled…
