Tag: MATH

The lottery's appeal stems from the fact that anyone could be a winner; it is a game of chance. But Canadian statistician Mohan Srivastava, who has degrees from MIT and Stanford, has realized one completely "duh" factor. In order to receive scratch-off lottery tickets, a machine must first print the numbers, over which the latex is pasted. "It would be really nice if the computer could just spit ...

One thing this writer was never particularly good at was math, which is why he turned to blogging and away from a career as an electrical engineer. But researchers at the University of Oxford believe that mild electrical stimulation of the brain can actually improve math skills, for up to six months at time, without any negative side effects. Roi Cohen Kadosh, a researcher on the project, told ...

Confronted with an ongoing app revolution and a prosperous surge of versatile handheld devices, calculators may seem condemned to being bygone gadgets of yore. A defiant and inspired Casio, however, apparently believes its calculators -- equipped with new, cutting-edge capabilities -- remain highly relevant and necessary mathematical tools. Older fogies (especially the bumbling ones who -- ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Listen to the Web with Codeorgan, a site from DLKW that creates a soundtrack to any URL you throw at it. [From: CODEORGAN] Matt Haughey, founder of MetaFilter, ...

Take a seat, math geeks. According to the BBC News, a scientist has calculated pi, that mathematical constant you might remember from high school, to more digits than ever in the history of time. Fabrice Bellard broke the previous record, which was set last August at 2.6 trillion digits by Daisuke Takahashi, by about 123 billion digits for a grand total of 2.7 trillion digits. What's even more ...

Thanks to those imagineers at Walt Disney World, you no longer have to be an engineer to design a theme park ride, or be a nerd to have fun doing math. A new interactive feature, developed by Disney and military contractor Raytheon, and called Sum of All Thrills, opened yesterday at Disney's Epcot park. Both of the parties involved hope it'll teach kids that engineering and math can be fun and ...