The Mathematics of Scratch Seven by Aaron Brown

In To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, Christopher Paolini introduced the novel card game Scratch Seven. One galactically local mathematician, Aaron Brown, was intrigued and took a deeper look into the game in his paper The Mathematics of Scratch Seven. The amount of thought, work, and time that Mr. Brown put into this is truly impressive.

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For the most part, Mr. Brown focuses on the mechanics and strategy of Scratch Seven. However, he also spends some time discussing th...