These and other AI models don't always agree. Sometimes they'll respond with 42 or 37, as reported by other Register hacks and various users of AI models who have noted the phenomenon. But 27 appears ...

A classic puzzle conundrum goes like this: You’re in a room with two ropes and a box of matches. Each rope takes exactly an hour to burn all the way across, but it might burn faster through some ...

Pope Leo, Mathematician: Math-Minded Catholics Claim Pope as One of Their Own The Holy Father is thought to be the first math major to become pope – and math aficionados say it’s about time.

Sen. John Kennedy's math capabilities called into question after he claimed gov. spent over a trillion dollars in last 10+ years on education grants.

Photonic computing offers a potential solution. Inside this device made by Lightmatter, which is about as wide as a computer keyboard, four photonic chips do math with light.

Harvard might be America’s most elite university — but now it’s offering remedial math classes. The school’s math department is providing a new scaled-back math class for freshmen who are ...

Bitcoin miners don't solve complex math problems - they guess numbers. While "solving mathematical puzzles" has become a common description of bitcoin mining, the process more closely resembles a ...

Random processes shape science and math: Researchers propose a unified, probabilistic framework by Santa Fe Institute Editors' notes ...