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 ...

Python has become one of the most popular programming languages out there, particularly for beginners and those new to the hacker/maker world. Unfortunately, while it’s easy to get something up and ...

The doubling square trick is a simple mathematical shortcut designed for class 6 to 10 students to make multiplication easier. By using the formula (n-1) × (n+1) = n² - 1, students can quickly ...

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 ...

Pyright incorrectly resolves a local, internal module named math to the built-in Python math module, leading to false-positive type errors ("... is not a known attribute of module math") when ...

American high-school seniors’ scores on major math and reading tests fell to their lowest levels on record, according to results released Tuesday by the U.S. Education Department. Twelfth-graders’ ...

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 Keep on the Borderlands is probably the most iconic and well known of the Dungeons & Dragons modules by TSR, the original publisher of the game created by Gary Gygax, who also authored this module ...

Today is Cinco de Mayo. And this year, the fifth of May is filled with mathematical joy. It is — Square Root Day! It all started in 1981. "I was writing a check in late August," says Ron Gordon, who ...