Sjouke Mauw - Juggling paper

Why men (and octopuses) cannot juggle a four ball cascade

A short juggling paper by André Engels and Sjouke Mauw

We wrote a short paper explaining why one needs an odd number of balls in order to throw a cascade pattern.

The main result of this paper dates back to my PhD. thesis (1991), but the full paper only became available in 1999 as a technical report of the Eindhoven Univerisity of Technology (The Netherlands). The paper has been published in the Journal of Recreational Mathematics, 31(2): 117-126, 2002/2003.

A preprint is available in the following formats: compressed postscript, HTML, PDF.


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