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Abstract
We describe a number of devices for pulling candy, called taffy pullers,that are related to pseudo-Anosov maps of punctured spheres. Though the mathematical connection has long been known for the two most common taffy puller models, we unearth a rich variety of early designs from the patent literature, and introduce a new one.
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23 pages, 49 figures, AMSLaTeX with Tikz macros. Contains an extra appendix compared to the published version with some more taffy pullers from the patent literature
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slides: http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jeanluc/talks/clarkson2015.pdf paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.00152v1.pdf
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