For four decades, a quiet boundary in pure mathematics kept a powerful theorem locked inside the safe world of finite quantities. Now a new result known as Sebestyen’s theorem has pushed that boundary ...

New research finds girls and women more often use step-by-step algorithms, while boys and men use shortcuts. Accuracy is ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

It’s taking far longer than expected in multiple counties across Arizona to count ballots and report election results. The delay means numerous congressional, statewide, and local races have yet to be ...

Concerns over the counting of ballots in key swing states as well as fraud claims have begun to flare in the final hours before polls close on election night. As attention pivots from pushing voters ...

Concerns over the counting of ballots in key swing states as well as fraud claims have begun to snowball in the final hours before polls close on election night. As attention pivots from pushing ...