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Largest known prime number, spanning 41 million digits, discovered by amateur mathematician using free softwareA draw housing six Sapphire Technology AMD graphics processing units (GPUs).
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This 180-year-old graffiti scribble was actually an equation that changed the history of mathematicsA photograph of the arched stone bridge that William Rowan Hamilton scratched his equation into.
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'Can you predict the future? Yes, of course you can.': Inside the 1 equation that can predict the weather, sporting events, and more"Life isn’t chess, a game of perfect information, one that can in theory be 'solved.' It's poker, a game where you're trying to make the best decisions using the limited information you have. "
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World's most difficult maze could help reveal the secrets of otherworldly quasicrystalsScientists created a maze-like fractal inspired by the movements of chess pieces. The ultra-difficult maze could help to improve our understanding of bizarre quasicrystals.
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'The beauty of symbolic equations is that it's much easier to … see a problem at a glance': How we moved from words and pictures to thinking symbolically"Even the +, −, =, and x signs we take for granted only came into widespread use in the 17th century. Which means that the earlier algebraists we know of … all had expressed their equations mostly in words or pictorial word images"
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Avi Wigderson wins $1 million Turing Award for using randomness to change computer scienceThe 2023 Turing Award has been given to Avi Wigderson . The mathematician found that adding randomness into algorithms made them better at solving nondeterministic problems.
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Pi calculated to 105 trillion digits, smashing world recordA U.S. computer storage company has calculated the irrational number pi to 105 trillion digits, breaking the previous world record. The calculations took 75 days to complete and used up 1 million gigabytes of data.
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Can you solve NASA's Pi Day 2024 riddle?Hungry for Pi? Check out NASA's Pi Day challenge and put your wits to the test solving problems just like NASA scientists and engineers.
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12 surprising facts about pi to chew on this Pi DayOn Pi Day (March 14) we celebrate perhaps the most iconic irrational number on Earth. From its ancient origins to the unanswered questions, here are some of the most surprising facts about pi.
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