The Hangover: Connection Between Math And Film

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Even though it may be hard to believe math and movies have an enormous connection to each other. Whether the math is being done in the movie scene itself, being used to animate a character and a setting or being used by a producer to put together a budget for the movie and its components. All of these things and more are done in the process of writing, producing, recording, editing and broadcasting a movie or film. Even the lowest budget movies that are of poor quality and the shortest movies that do not seem like a movie at all, are still comprised of a lot of math. The movie I chose is “The Hangover”, at one point in the movie the characters are in a casino gambling. One character in particular, Alan, is sitting at a table playing blackjack and trying to win the game. He desperately needs money to get his friend, Doug back from kidnappers. Alan then remembers a book he read once about a strategy to win blackjack, the strategy is the Fibonacci betting system. Fibonacci betting system, is used in blackjack to give the player higher stakes at winning blackjack, allowing the player to cheat. The Fibonacci betting system was adapted from the Fibonacci sequence: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, ...; each number is found by adding the two numbers before it. …show more content…

Leonardo was known as Fibonacci around his local community, and as a result the name is “Fibonacci sequence”. Using the Fibonacci betting system is incredibly easy to comprehend and to implement and eventually win. You start off with a bet of one because it is the first number in the Fibonacci sequence. Every time you win a bet, the next bet you play should correspond to the next number in the sequence. If you look according to the sequence you will always know what to bet, although if you lose you must start the sequence over

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