The Persian mathematician Al-Karaji (953-1029) computed the first description of Pascal's triangle given below. It was later repeated by the Persian poet-astronomer-mathematician Omar Khayyám (1048-1131); thus the triangle is also referred to as the Khayyam triangle in Iran.

A quaker was walking down a country road when he was suddenly confronted by a robber brandishing a pistol. The robber exclaimed, "Your money or your life!" My friend replied, "I cannot deliver my money because I should be aiding thee in evildoing, but exchange is lawful, and I will give thee my purse for the pistol." The thief consented to accept the purse, then the quaker pointed the gun to the robber's head and said, "Now buddy, give me back my pocketbook or the weapon may go off fire," according to the robber.

Is it still feasible to trick people nowadays with a machine like Mechanical Turk? If you were to recreate the Turk of the eighteenth century, what would be the distinctions between it and the Turk of today?

Is it still feasible to trick people nowadays with a machine like Mechanical Turk? If you were to recreate the Turk of the eighteenth century, what would be the distinctions between it and the Turk of today?