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Unscrambling the Hidden Secrets of Superpermutations
Four. Three. One. Five. Two. Nothing happens. The evil genius Derango is loading a cataclysmic computer...
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Scientists Find Optimal Balance of Data Storage and Time
Allison Li for Quanta Magazine About 70 years ago, an engineer at IBM named Hans Peter...
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In a 'Dark Dimension,' Physicists Search for the Universe's Missing Matter
Since then, scientists have wrestled with one striking characteristic of lambda: Its estimated value of 10−122...
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What Makes for 'Good' Mathematics?
We tend to think of mathematics as purely logical, but the teaching of math, its values,...
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How to Build an Origami Computer
In 1936, the British mathematician Alan Turing came up with an idea for a universal computer....
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Linear Programming - Researchers Approach New Speed Limit for Seminal Problem
That’s not to say it’s easy work. It wasn’t until 1983 that the mathematician Hendrik Lenstra...
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The quest to decode the Mandelbrot set
In the mid-1980s, like Walkman cassette players and tie-dyed shirts, the buglike silhouette of the Mandelbrot...
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New theory suggests LLMs can understand text
Artificial intelligence seems more powerful than ever, with chatbots like Bard and ChatGPT capable of producing...
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Math's 'Game of Life' Reveals Long-Sought Repeating Patterns
Throughout the 1970s, mathematicians and hobbyists filled in the other short periods and found a smattering...
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A collector of math and physics surprises (2018)
November 27, 2018The mathematician Tadashi Tokieda, pictured at Stanford University, relishes the “toys” he finds in...
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'Magical' Error Correction Scheme Proved Inherently Inefficient
If you’ve ever sent a text message, played a CD, or stored a file in the...
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Cells Across the Body Talk to Each Other About Aging
Now, Dillin and his team have expanded that finding by discovering new details about how mitochondria...