The Powerball jackpot climbed to an estimated $1.6 billion — the game's fourth-largest prize ever —after another drawing passed Saturday night without a winner. The winning numbers were 4, 5, 28, 52 ...

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The Toronto Blue Jays are in a fight for the American League Pennant with the Seattle Mariners. The Jays surprisingly forced a game seven after quickly falling behind 2-0 in the AL Championship Series ...

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Multiplication is a fundamental skill in mathematics, but some number combinations can appear tricky. Imagine being able to quickly multiply numbers like 35 x 35 or 65 x 65 in your head, almost ...

Are you tonight’s lucky winner? Grab your tickets and check your numbers. A single ticket-holder in Virginia has won Friday’s drawing. Here are the winning numbers in Friday’s drawing: 18-21-29-42-50; ...

Ever wanted to impress everyone by solving complex multiplication problems in your head, without needing a pencil or paper? It's not magic; it's mental math—a superpower you can learn! This article is ...

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Quantum computers still can’t do much. Almost every time researchers have found something the high-tech machines should one day excel at, a classical algorithm comes along that can do it just as well ...

Jeremiah Bartz owns shares in Nvidia. A shard of smooth bone etched with irregular marks dating back 20,000 years puzzled archaeologists until they noticed something unique – the etchings, lines like ...

This article was originally published by computer historian Ken Shirriff on his blog. Thanks to his kind permission, the article is reproduced here. Eine Übertragung ins Deutsche ist ebenfalls ...

Abstract: In this article, a signed-digit hybrid stochastic number (SD-HSN), which combines the two-line bipolar stochastic number (TLB-SN) and the binary signed-digit (BSD) number, is proposed and ...