Entertaining Children

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"Talent again?" Sandra looked at Xiao Yao and said, "Since you are so talented in mathematics, why don't you study science and become an artist instead?"

"Because I have a higher talent in music and acting!" Xiao Yao said without blushing at all.

"Okay, I'm taking the test, not here to discuss my life and career choices with you!" Xiao Yao continued, "Excuse me, has the test for me been completed? Have I passed the test?"

Sandra, Taylor, Sam, and Raj looked at each other, then nodded together.

"Then can you teach me card counting?" Xiao Yao asked.

"Of course!" Taylor nodded and stretched out his hand, "Welcome to the MIT 21 point group."

"Join?" Xiao Yao smiled, "But I'm not a student of MIT!"

"Yes," Taylor said, "you are the first non-MIT student in our group."

"Well, it's my honor!" Xiao Yao reached out and shook Taylor's hand.

"I'm hungry!" Sam raised his hand. "I think we should celebrate the addition of a new member and find a place to eat!"

"OK, I'll treat you!" Xiao Yao smiled, "This is your place, you find a place, I pay for it!"

It was not too early for Xiao Yao, Yan Ke and others to come over. After some introductions and two tests, it took a lot of time. Now it is almost time for lunch.

"Since it's our territory..." Taylor said.

"I agree!" Yan Ke interjected, "He is a celebrity and very rich, so he should pay the bill! Let's pick a more expensive place!"

"Okay!" Taylor thought for a while and nodded.

After the discussion was settled, the group left the school to have lunch.

Although Yan Ke said that he wanted to "eat big families", everyone took Xiao Yao to a small restaurant not far from the school in the end. Judging from the scale and decoration, it didn't seem to be a particularly high-end place. Xiao Yao invited guests to dinner just to be polite, not to show off how rich he is, so he didn't raise any objections, and followed everyone into this ordinary-looking restaurant.

After everyone entered the restaurant to find vacant seats to sit down, the waiter in the restaurant quickly came to greet them and brought them menus.

After receiving the menu from the waiter, Xiao Yao was dumbfounded.

"What kind of menu is this?" Xiao Yao was speechless.

The menu of this restaurant is very special. The normal menu, including the name and price of the food. On the menu of this restaurant, the food names are nothing special, but the corresponding price positions behind the dish names are not numbers, but different mathematical formulas. Moreover, these formulas are not simple arithmetic operations or equations, but complex formulas involving advanced mathematics, more than 80% of which Xiao Yao can't even understand, let alone forget.

"Ha!" Seeing Xiao Yao's speechless expression, Taylor and the others laughed.

"The owner of this restaurant is a teacher from our school's mathematics department!" Sandra explained with a smile, "The customers here are basically students from our school! So, welcome to MIT!"

This restaurant is not far from MIT, Xiao Yao understood after hearing what Sandra said.

"You just said that I have passed the test," Xiao Yao leaned forward and asked Sandra tentatively in a low voice, "So, this is not another test for me, right?"

"It seems that you really haven't studied advanced mathematics!" Sandra understood, and said with a smile, "Yes, this is not a test."

"Oh!" Xiao Yao heaved a sigh of relief and leaned back on the back of the chair.

"But," Sandra asked again, "you can't read the menu, how do you order and pay?"

"Cut~" Xiao Yao curled his lips, "I just can't understand the formulas on the price, why can't I understand the menu? I'm a rich man, and I don't look at the price when ordering, as long as I know the name of the dish That's it.

As for the bill, I pay as much as the waiter says, I don't care! "

"Hey~" Sandra curled her lips in disgust.

Taylor and the others knew that Xiao Yao, a star, must be a rich man, but after contacting him all morning, they found that Xiao Yao had neither the airs of a star nor the dandyism of a rich man, and they still had a very good impression of him. OK Now Xiao Yao deliberately raises money in response to Sandra's teasing. In their view, it is witty and humorous, not showing off. Not only is it not disgusting, but it feels a little cute.

Xiao Yao doesn't think that students in schools like MIT are all nerds, especially those who think of using mathematics in card counting and using card counting to win money in casinos are even less likely to be nerds. Xiao Yao is also very interested in this group of people, and has a certain liking for them, and behaves very affectionately.

So, the atmosphere of the meal was good. After a meal, Taylor and the others had a good chat with Xiao Yao, they got to know each other better, and they seemed to be a lot more familiar with each other.

After lunch, everyone took a short break, and then returned to a classroom at MIT to start teaching card counting.

In the afternoon teaching, Taylor and others took turns. Someone is responsible for explaining the formulas and calculation methods used in card counting to Xiao Yao, and someone is responsible for demonstrating.

Xiao Yao's learning ability and efficiency are very good, and he doesn't seek to understand the deep mathematical principles and knowledge involved in the formula, but only wants to master the method, and he quickly understands and learns the method of card counting.

"I think I understand!" Xiao Yao said confidently after not too long.

The people in the card counting team didn't seem too surprised, nor did they have any words of praise, as if they had expected this result a long time ago.

"Really?" Sam walked up to Xiao Yao with a bag, and took out playing cards and chips from the bag, "Then let's try it! This time we will play with three decks of cards!"

"Okay!" Xiao Yao was also a little eager to try, and nodded happily.

This time was different from the memory test in the morning, it was conducted by simulating the actual situation of the casino. Taylor is the banker, Sam, Raj and Sandra are all on the stage as players like Xiao Yao, only Yan Ke still does not participate, just watching from the sidelines.

Although Sam, Raj, and Sandra played, they only acted as ordinary passer-by players in the casino, not with Xiao Yao. In the following process, the betting and asking cards of the three seemed very casual, and everyone's focus was on Xiao Yao.

And Xiao Yao's performance is very good. After studying during the period just now, Xiao Yao indeed understood and mastered the card counting method they taught. After more than an hour, the chips in front of Xiao Yao almost doubled.

"It seems that I can leave for Vegas tomorrow!" Xiao Yao looked at the chips in front of him, turned his head and smiled at the three of Yan Ke.

"What? You're going to Vegas tomorrow?" The people in the card counting team were surprised this time, and Taylor even asked.

"Yeah!" Xiao Yao laughed, "If I don't go to Vegas, why should I learn card counting?"

"No," Taylor said, "my point is, are you planning to go alone?"

"That's right!" Xiao Yao nodded, "I heard from Yan that when you go to Vegas, all the team members will go out and act collectively, and you will cooperate with each other. But haven't you all been arrested by the Vegas police?" Is the casino blacklisted? I want you to go with me, but Yan said you can’t go to the casino, so I can only go alone.”

"Also," Xiao Yao looked at the chips in front of him, and continued, "It seems that card counting can be done by one person!"

"Really?" Taylor smiled, "Casinos don't play three decks of cards, let's try adding a few more decks?"

"OK!" Xiao Yao nodded.

He'd heard that blackjack tables in casinos typically used five or six decks of cards at a time. The difficulty of three decks of cards is indeed less than the actual situation, but Xiao Yao thinks he has learned card counting, and does not think that adding a few decks of cards will make him unable to win.

"We'll use eight decks this time!" Tyler took out five more decks of cards from Sam's bag.

"What?" Xiao Yao was slightly surprised, "I heard that casinos usually use five to six decks of cards!"

"Yang, there are also eight decks of cards. We met them in the casino!" Yan Ke said.

"Okay!" Xiao Yao nodded.

The difficulty of eight decks of cards is indeed higher than that of five or six decks, and it is even more difficult to calculate. However, Xiao Yao has enough confidence in his memory and mental arithmetic ability. For him who has mastered the card counting method, he is still confident that he can handle this increase in difficulty.

From three decks to eight decks, the difficulty has increased a lot, but Xiao Yao's performance is not bad, basically the chips are still increasing slowly, so Xiao Yao still looks relatively calm. But when Taylor increased the difficulty again, Xiao Yao was not calm.

"Do it again!" After changing to eight decks, Taylor did not deal out all the cards, but after playing seven or eight rounds, he recombined the discarded and unused cards.

The more discarded cards and the fewer unused cards, the higher the accuracy of the player's judgment. However, it is not impossible to play when there are too many opening cards. Xiao Yao thought that Taylor would start again because he saw that he did not show signs of decline in the previous rounds, so he just shrugged and did not object.

But what Xiao Yao didn't expect was that after Taylor reassembled the eight decks of cards, he didn't start to deal the cards, but directly took away a large stack of cards, put them aside, and only started with the remaining cards.

In this way, the points on the table and some special cards cannot be estimated.

Xiao Yao immediately frowned and said, "Hey~"

"This kind of situation also happens in casinos!" Yan Ke said aside.

Although Xiao Yao could hear Yan Ke's tone of gloating, he didn't question it, but nodded with a frown, signaling Taylor to continue.

Judging from the card counting method that Xiao Yao learned just now, this situation is a bit out of line. When Xiao Yao was playing, his speed slowed down significantly, and the time to think about whether or not to play a card was obviously longer.

Although Xiao Yao's thinking time has become longer, the situation has not improved. After ten or so rounds, the chips in front of Xiao Yao have obviously decreased. Card counting is about probability, which is to increase the overall chance of winning. The more times you play, the more obvious the effect will be. There is no guarantee that you will win every hand, so it is normal for the chips to decrease within a certain period of time. Ten or so rounds is not too many, which does not necessarily mean that there is a problem with Xiao Yao's algorithm, but Xiao Yao clearly feels that something is wrong with him.

Cutting off some of the cards at the beginning made Xiao Yao very embarrassed. Unexpectedly, after playing a dozen or so rounds, Taylor opened a new deck of unused cards. After shuffling the cards, he added some of them to the cards to be dealt. pile.

"Hey!" Xiao Yao shouted dissatisfied when he saw Taylor's actions.

"Yan~" Taylor laughed.

"Don't tell me this is what really happens in casinos!" Xiao Yao looked at Taylor and said.

"It's true!" Taylor said, spreading his hands, "We have encountered it. You know, we are not the only ones who count cards now, and it's not that casinos have never encountered card counters. When a suspected card counter is found at the gambling table and cannot be identified, these additional methods will be used to deal with the suspected card counter!"

"I'm going, is there still such a thing?" Xiao Yao stared, "So, wouldn't it be worthless?"

"No confidence?" Taylor smiled, "Are you going to admit defeat?"

"I didn't come to gamble with you!" Xiao Yao said, "The things you taught me can't cope with such a situation. If you continue to gamble, it's purely a game of luck. I'm not a gambler, it's meaningless to play luck, keep gambling There's no point in going down."

"Ha~" Everyone in the card counting team laughed.

"Are you kidding me?" Xiao Yao looked at them and said, "Okay, I admit that I was too arrogant just now. You haven't finished teaching me, so I can't wait to say that I have learned it!"

"Why do you say that?" Taylor asked.

"Yan told me that you have already been to Vegas and have been blacklisted by the casino alliance." Xiao Yao said, "Only if you win money will you be blacklisted by the casino. Yan also said that you are indeed I won money from the casino. You have encountered this situation and you can still win money, which means that you have a way to deal with this situation! I have learned everything you taught me, but I still don’t know how to deal with it. Maybe you haven't taught me yet!"

"Yes!" Taylor nodded, "However, we are not saying that you have learned it, so we deliberately hide some things and don't teach you, but we are saying that you can go to the casino alone. Our card counting is teamwork , Different people take on different roles, have different divisions of labor and tasks, and one person cannot complete them!"

"Division of labor and cooperation? Different roles?" Xiao Yao waved his hands, "Can you elaborate?"

"When we go to the casino, we always act in groups." Taylor said, "In a group, there will be at least three people. Among them are two card counters and one big player. Of the two card counters, one is in charge of early detection , to detect the trend of the cards on the table, send signals to the big players, and notify the big players to enter the game. Another card counter is in charge of controlling the field and reminding the big players. Among the three people, the big players are the main force, and the other two People are support. Although they are support, these two people are also indispensable."

"There must be at least three people? Then I can't go to Vegas?" Xiao Yao turned to Yan Ke and asked the three of them, "Before I came, why didn't you tell me about this situation?"

"It's not impossible to go." Yan Ke said, "Although we have been blacklisted by Vegas casinos, it does not mean that our card counting is finished. We can teach you, naturally You can teach other people. During this time, we are already looking for new members of the card counting team. When we find new members of the card counting team, we can go to Vegas with you."

"When will we have to wait to find new team members?" Xiao Yao said.

"Soon!" Taylor said, "In the card counting group, big players are the main force, and they also have the highest requirements for abilities and qualities in all aspects. Relatively speaking, it is difficult to find people who can be big players, and the two counting players who are assistants It is easier to find a card player. We believe that your ability and quality meet the requirements of a big player, and what I taught you just now is what a big player needs to master. With you as a big player, it will not be too difficult to find two more assistants. Difficult, and it won’t take long. We’re at MIT!”

Xiao Yao nodded, looked at the crowd and said, "Can you tell me, who is the big player, who is the card counter, who is the early investigation, and who is controlling the field?"

"Me, Yu Gang and Taylor are big players, they are all card counters..." Yan Ke said.

"Wait," Xiao Yao interrupted, "You said that a team needs at least three people, but you only have seven people in total, and there are three big players?"

"The three of us are mainly big players, but we can also be card counters and assist others!" Yan Ke said.

"Oh!" Xiao Yao nodded, suddenly moved in his heart, and said to Yan Ke and the others, "Can you show me how your three-person team divides labor and cooperates? It's the situation just now!"

Several people looked at each other, Taylor nodded with a smile: "Of course!"