Lottery tickets purchased repeatedly in the same small Texas town led to four separate wins and nearly $21 million in total payouts. State officials verified each claim, but the streak stood out ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Researchers have successfully used a quantum algorithm to solve a complex century-old mathematical problem long considered impossible for even the most powerful conventional supercomputers. The ...

High-quality random number generators are required for various applications such as cryptography, secure communications, Monte Carlo simulations, and randomized algorithms. Existing pseudorandom ...

The second you start watching a video on YouTube, the site begins building an algorithm of your likes. While the goal of that is to show you content you want to see, it means you'll miss out on so ...

Background: Colorectal cancer is considered to be triggered by the malignant transformation of colorectal polyps. Early diagnosis and excision of colorectal polyps has been found to lower the ...

There shuffle mode (i.e. the Shuffle Playback) is a function available on the main music players and modern music streaming services that allows you to play the songs contained in a folder or playlist ...

AA Second Project - The objective of this project was to design and test a randomized algorithm to solve the combinatorial problem from the first assignment, which was to find a minimum weighted ...

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