Grade school math students are likely ... helpful — in the barnyard example, where the easiest attribute to solve for is horns. Why? Because chickens don’t have horns, which zeroes out the chicken ...

Scientists have trained a computer algorithm to complete a nearly century-old math problem in a mere half ... is able to systematically process all examples to test them for validity.

University of New South Wales Honorary Professor Norman Wildberger has unveiled a potentially game-changing mathematical ...

If there are multiple solutions, the algorithms will find them all. This is a small example ... algebra to tackle problems in artificial intelligence, robotics, cryptography, quantum computing and so ...

Solving one of the oldest algebra problems isn't a bad claim to fame, and it's a claim Norman Wildberger can now make: The ...

Still, calculation time grows at least as fast as N does: if N gets 1,000 times larger, the problem will take at least 1,000 times longer to solve ... for example, that the algorithm could ...

Say you were to discover an efficient algorithm ... a quirk of this example but also a feature of computation itself. A web of reductions unites all NP-complete problems. Solve any one of them ...

For example ... than it does to solve the puzzle, you're not wrong. What do we get by doing this complicated translation into algebra? Well, we get to use late-20th century algorithms to figure ...

Most people’s experiences with polynomial equations don’t extend much further than high school algebra ... solving equations without the need for radicals. It may also help improve algorithms ...