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Mathemagicians is an actual term. It is used to describe someone so good at maths it is like magic. There's a great example online of someone who can square 5 digit numbers in his head, and can correctly tell you what day any date fell/will fall on. Here's the link  

But, if you're wanting a maths based magic system, I think that is doable. Trajectories of spells might need to be highly fine tuned. The magician would need to understand parabolas, acceleration, circular motion, Pythagoras (imagine someone is on a train, the magician is a fair distance from the tracks and wants to send a spell to hit the train at the right point along the tracks. The spell needs to travel at the correct speed along the hypotenuse to hit the train). Maybe magic from a moving platform is tricky and the maths needs to be calculated. Maybe the energy requirement needs fine-tuning based on a complex algorithm?


Thanks,
Matt

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