TL;DR The root cause of the hack was a rounding direction issue that had been present in the code for many years. When the ...

Does trying to calculate a tip without your smartphone calculator make you break out in a cold sweat? If you answered “yes,” you’re in good company. Even the most brilliant scientists and engineers ...

The meme exploded into youth culture with a video of a boy who delivers a giddy “six seven” at a basketball game. CAM WILDER The name of this fall’s most obnoxious classmate: Six Seven. Math teacher ...

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Alfred Nobel's prestigious awards honor many fields but notably exclude mathematics. This has sparked curiosity for years. While popular myths about personal rivalries exist, historical research ...

[Jean-Christophe Rona] found himself with some free time and decided to finish a project he started two years ago, reverse engineering cheap 433MHz home automation equipment. He hopes to control his ...

AO Advice: How Your High School is Evaluated in the College Admissions Process Get the inside scoop on how colleges assess your high school and its course rigor. Featuring a former Admissions Officer, ...

You can find the difference between two numbers in more than one way. You can count up from the smaller number to the larger number. Or, you can count back from the larger number to the smaller number ...

Students at Cambridge Maths School celebrated their A-level results today – the first cohort to study at the new specialist sixth form college. The state-funded school, run by the Eastern Learning ...

More than half of primary school teachers say their students are getting better at maths, an Education Review Office report shows. But it said students were not being taught enough complex things like ...

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the American cartoonist Crockett Johnson created a series of paintings on mathematical subjects. They’re based on theorems, laws, and mathematical figures, but ...