One of the most common old-fashioned tricks kids today are not taught in school that would save them a lot of time is the ...

To come up with a result as weird as this, you need to be using some equally mind-bending math – and indeed, this paradox ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

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Aaron Lauda has been exploring an area of mathematics that most physicists have seen little use for, wondering if it might have practical applications. In a twist even he didn’t expect, it turns out ...

Last week, MIT published a report that should make every CEO sit up straight: 95% of generative AI pilots deliver zero return on investment. Let me put that in perspective, AI startups took in around ...

Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107 and — wait for it — 47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If you’re stumped, you’re not alone. These are the first five busy ...

Fifty years ago, “fractal” was born. In a 1975 book, the Polish-French-American mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot coined the term to describe a family of rough, fragmented shapes that fall outside ...

In Grounded 2, you have the option to either play the game in single-player mode or multiplayer with up to three other people. Playing single-player will offer a widely different experience from ...

Did it ping your bank in a split second? The explanation is much cleverer. All mainstream credit card numbers obey a mathematical trick designed to catch the most common typos. It’s called the Luhn ...