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Shapley Attractor

Have you ever played with magnets and noticed how they always want to connect with each other? Well, that's kind of like what a Shapley Attractor is!

In math, a Shapley Attractor is a point within a system that all the other points are drawn towards. Imagine a bunch of dots on a page. If you were to draw lines connecting all the dots, the Shapley Attractor would be the point where those lines intersected.

This point is named after Lloyd Shapley, a clever man who studied game theory and cooperative game models. In those models, different players work together to achieve a goal, and the Shapley Attractor helps determine how rewards should be divided among the players based on their contributions.

So, just like magnets, the Shapley Attractor helps bring things together and creates a sense of order in a system. Pretty cool, huh?