Discover how Markov chains predict real systems, from Ulam and von Neumann’s Monte Carlo to PageRank, so you can grasp ...

Warfare is constantly evolving as new tactics, techniques, and technologies enter the fray, and the 21st century has seen many changes along these lines. Most notably, drones have shot to the ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

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Three years into the Kenya Kwanza administration, numbers are everywhere. The government has been emphatic on how it has made progress, especially in turning around the economy. How the inflation rate ...

A variation of a puzzle called the “pick-up sticks problem” asks the following question: If I have some number of sticks with random lengths between 0 and 1, what are the chances that no three of ...

This repository contains clean and efficient solutions to the CSES Problem Set, implemented in C++. Great for practicing algorithms and preparing for competitive programming.

Practical word problems are often considered one of the most complex parts of elementary school mathematics. They require students to understand the context of a math problem, identify what the ...

While the 2024 presidential election had relatively few ballot issues compared to 2000 and 2020, there are some ongoing ballot problems in a couple of Senate races in swing states being focused on by ...

When it comes to election results, Alaska’s vote-counting pace tends to resemble its mountain valleys: glacial. While almost all other states count nearly all of their ballots in the hours after polls ...