World's Oldest Number Trick #shorts

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Nicomachus wrote "Introduction to Arithmetic" nearly 2,000 years ago, but he also seems to have come up with the first mathematically-based mind blows in Syria. Given the average person's understanding of mathematics at that time, who WOULDN'T think Nicomachus was a wizard?

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