I mean, I’ve used them in algebra many times but I never really understood what it does. Kinda like in biostatistics how I could do the math, but how it worked was beyond me entirely.
So yeah: like what’s this sorcery and what does it do/why do we use it?
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A witch gives you a bag of n marbles. One of them is lucky. If you touch it, you will shit gold.
So you divide the marbles into m equal-ish piles, differing by no more than 1 in size, and give each to a friend.
Then, each of your friends divides their pile into m equal-ish piles and gives each of these to a friend.
This continues until nobody has more than one marble.
logm(n) = the # of 5yos who can now pay off their parents’ student loans (rounded up or down, as luck would have it)
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