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This year\u2019s Spring Carnival brought to life Myths and Legends throughout history. The Carnegie Mellon Math Club combined both magic and historical legend as it transported Carnival-goers back to a time of castles, kings and mathematical sorcery with its award-winning booth, Merlin\u2019s Quest.<\/p>\n
The design was based around scenes from the lessons that Merlin taught the young King Arthur, which took first place among all \u201cblitz\u201d booths \u2014 booths that are contained in an 8\u2019x18\u2019 plot. The group also won the environmental award among blitz booths for their attention to energy efficiency, recycling and reusing of building materials.<\/p>\n
Upon entering, visitors encountered Arthur\u2019s first meeting with Merlin at his hut in the forest. From there, the surrounding walls laid out four \u201cquests,\u201d as<\/p>\n
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introduced by Merlin\u2019s owl Archimedes, that Arthur must complete on his\u00a0quest to become king. Visitors could help by solving a few mathematical riddles along the way. Tasks included determining relationships within a flock of geese as friends or strangers, taking on Zeno\u2019s paradox and decrypting a secret message using a scytale. The journey ended with the ultimate kingly challenge \u2014 pulling a sword out of the stone, or in the Math Club\u2019s case, pulling a sword out of a box to open the lid and collect a small prize.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of our favorite visitors were those that came in and thoughtfully did our activities, sometimes for as long as an hour,\u201d said Elliot Haney, mathematical sciences senior and Math Club booth chair. \u201cWe also enjoyed seeing people\u2019s reactions to our booth. On the back wall, we had a fire extinguisher and a light switch. As a joke, we wrote above them \u2018some gifts Merlin brought from the future.\u2019 To our surprise, that was one of the most popular additions we made.<\/p>\n
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