The Powerball lottery jackpot keeps growing, after there were once more no winners of the grand prize in the draw made on Monday, November 24. It’s now 34 draws and almost three months since the ...

The Powerball lottery jackpot keeps growing, after there were once more no winners of the grand prize in Saturday’s latest draw. It’s now 33 draws and well over two months since the Powerball last ...

Is 170,141,183,460,469,231,731,687,303,715,884,105,727 prime? Before you ask the Internet for an answer, can you consider how you might answer that question without a ...

Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I really like to use numerical calculations without all the fancy programming ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Pattern Group (NASDAQ:PTRN) attracted a clean sweep of bull ratings from Wall Street analysts after the expiration of the IPO quiet period. Firms that initiated coverage on Pattern Group (NASDAQ:PTRN) ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...

metap: Meta-programming for Python If you’ve ever lamented the lack of anything like a macro system for Python, check this out. It’s a tool for creating common code patterns in Python programs, but it ...

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Why do some elements decay in minutes, while others last billions of years? Certain "magic numbers" of nuclear particles may make all the difference. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...