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When it comes to chess, most people see themselves as falling into the category labeled “I have some skill, I may even beat my neighbors or my little niece, but I'm not really a grandmaster.” The last part is perhaps even more true, when it comes to maths. Well, to prove this to you beyond doubt, her... |
1 December 2008
08:32 GMT |
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Atsushi Uchida, a Japanese electrical engineer from the Saitama University, and fellow researcher Peter Davis, from the NTT Communication Science Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan, have managed to obtain actual random number sequences at speeds of up to 1.7 GB per second. Their discovery will prove to be crucial for digit... |
24 November 2008
05:11 GMT |
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Have you noticed that many plants grow in spiral? The pineapple, for example, can have 8 scale spirals headed into one direction and 5 or 13 headed towards the other direction. If you look at the seeds of the sunflower, you will see at least 55, respectively 89, spirals crossing each other. The cauliflower also displ... |
2 April 2008
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We are so accustomed with seeing the perfect circle, the zero that we cannot imagine it had to be invented. In fact, the invention of zero was a real revolution. Imagine how the Romans made calculations. For example, when building a villa, how much did they have to pay for 18 rows of 44 poles of 12 sexterts (Roman co... |
31 March 2008
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This you gotta hear! Romek Figa of Abraham & Son has just filed suit against Apple, claiming that "certain Apple telephones" (what, are there more of them?) infringe on his patent that does this: displays an incoming phone number alongside the incoming caller's name. That's it.Seemingly, Figa has patented t... |
28 February 2008
06:09 GMT |
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Yeah, right, humans are the smartest beings of the planet, and all the other animals are dumb. Including our closest relatives. But, a new research, published in "Current Biology", showed that young chimpanzees have an astonishing higher short-term memory capacity than human adults."There are still many people, inclu... |
4 December 2007
05:06 GMT |
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Skype is not something new for you, right? The voice over IP service that eBay bought and couldn't really take profit from and is rumored to be selling it to the highest bidder, namely Google and its mobile platform, Android. Central London residents will be the first to suffer the consequences of eBay's pr... |
26 November 2007
04:24 GMT |
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HTC managed to sell 800,000 units of their Touch smartphone up to this point, after the handset was released in Europe and Asia. The high units' number was reached only three months after the handset's market hit.HTC Touch has been considered by many people as the smartphone most worthy of the "iPhone kille... |
3 October 2007
03:34 GMT |
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If you're curios about the number of the clips indexed by Google Video you should know that it is exactly 36.228.091. Or not? As far I can see, the number is different every time you sort the videos for a certain criteria so it's quite weird because even Google is unsure how many clips its service has. Haoc... |
7 June 2007
09:21 GMT |
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Number 1 is very frequently used around the world. That wouldn't be much of a curiosity, if you knew all the fields it appears in. It's the most commonly found figure in groups as disparate as populations, death rates, physical and chemical constants, baseball statistics, the half-lives of radioactive isot... |
11 May 2007
09:57 GMT |
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The Fibonacci spirals and their occurrence in plants, from pinecones and pineapples to sunflowers, have always fascinated mathematicians, physicists and biologists, but they are still an enigma. A new experiment has succeeded in producing Fibonacci spirals in the lab and points that an elastically mismatched bi-layer... |
1 May 2007
12:16 GMT |
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A team of 19 mathematicians has succeeded in mapping E-8, a vast complex number invented more than a century ago. The 248-dimensional structure took four years of work and generated more data than the Human Genome Project. E8 belongs to the "Lie group", invented by the 19th Century Norwegian mathematician Sophus Lie ... |
19 March 2007
12:17 GMT |
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