Squaring a square sounds simple, but the math behind it is one of the strangest puzzles ever created. It requires cutting a square into smaller squares—all different sizes—with a pattern that doesn’t ...

Years ago, no math education was complete without understanding how to compute a square root. Today, you are probably just reaching for a calculator, or if you are writing a program, you’ll probably ...

In a recent write-up, [David Delony] explains how he built a Wolfram Mathematica-like engine with Python. Core to the system is SymPy for symbolic math support. [David] said being able to work with ...

I believe mathematical operators such as sin, tan, max, or lim should be translated when the document language is set to something other than English. This would be similar to LaTeX’s behavior when ...

Draw four lines beginning and ending at the gray points to break this square into pieces that can be rearranged into five identical squares. Show puzzle solution Bonus: Suppose you can use any number ...

The company that owns and operates the Port of Coeymans has opened a new 54,000 square foot building in Albany. Carver Companies held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday for its new headquarters on ...

In programming—and computer science in general—an expression is something which can be evaluated—that is, a syntactically valid combination of constants, variables, functions, and operators which ...

When presenting expressions, we saw examples of common arithmetic operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Here we will present two additional operations which are closely ...