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  2. Coin rotation paradox - Wikipedia

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    The outer coin makes two rotations rolling once around the inner coin. The path of a single point on the edge of the moving coin is a cardioid.. The coin rotation paradox is the counter-intuitive math problem that, when one coin is rolled around the rim of another coin of equal size, the moving coin completes not one but two full rotations after going all the way around the stationary coin ...

  3. Coin flipping - Wikipedia

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    In studying coin flipping, to observe the rotation speed of coin flips, Diaconis first used a strobe light and a coin with one side painted black, the other white, so that when the speed of the strobe flash equaled the rotation rate of the coin, it would appear to always show the same side. This proved difficult to use, and rotation rate was ...

  4. Coin manipulation - Wikipedia

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    Coin manipulation is the art of manipulating coins in skillful flourishes, usually on or around the hands. [1] Although not always considered coin magic, the flourishes are sometimes used in magic shows. The difficulty of the trick ranges greatly, from some that take a few minutes to accomplish, to much more complex ones that can take months ...

  5. Coin orientation - Wikipedia

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    Coin orientation (or coin alignment or variations of these) is the relation of the vertical orientation of the images on the obverse and reverse sides of coins to one another. The two basic relations are called medallic orientation and coin orientation .

  6. Coin Operated - Wikipedia

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    Coin Operated is a 2017 animated short film written and directed by Nicholas Arioli and produced by Jennifer Dahlman. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The film premiered at the 2017 Brooklyn Film Festival . [ 3 ]

  7. Aristotle's wheel paradox - Wikipedia

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    This is the solution, then, or the key to it. Although you are careful not to let the half-dollar slip on the tabletop, the “point” tracing the line segment at the foot of the dime is both rotating and slipping all the time. It is slipping with respect to the tabletop. Since the dime does not touch the table top, you do not notice the slipping.

  8. File:Wikipedia logo puzzle globe spins horizontally ...

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    Date: 31 March 2021: Source: Reversed version of File:Wikipedia logo puzzle globe spins horizontally continuously.gif: Author: David Richfield (User:Slashme) Github profile (blender file), User:Psiĥedelisto (this rendered version), User:Jahobr (only the horizontal rotation), User:Chlod (continuous rotation)

  9. List of Google April Fools' Day jokes - Wikipedia

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    2023: Gboard CAPS, a large key-shaped hat which one can select a letter by rotating and transmit a keypress by pressing down on the hat. [ 256 ] 2024: Gboard Double-Sided Version, this is a double-sided keyboard that is shaped like a Möbius Strip.