Weird Maths

An alternative is the Bayesian method, named after the eighteenth-century English statistician Thomas Bayes. This bases its calculation of probability on how confident we are of a certain outcome, so that it regards probability as being subjective.

An alternative is the Bayesian method, named after the eighteenth-century English statistician Thomas Bayes. This bases its calculation of probability on how confident we are of a certain outcome, so that it regards probability as being subjective.

may struggle to grasp the true appearance of a four-dimensional cube or ‘tesseract’, though, as we’ll see, we can try to represent it in two or three dimensions. But it’s straightforward to describe the progression from square to cube to tesseract: a square has 4 vertices (corners) and 4 edges; a cube has 8 vertices, 12 edges, and 6 faces; a tesseract has 16 vertices, 32

Quantum computers, like most new upstart technologies, bring both hope and headaches. Among the latter is the possibility of cracking codes that were previously thought to be highly secure, mainly because, despite decades of research, no one has found any polynomial-time method of cracking them.

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n 2017, technology entrepreneur Elon Musk launched Neuralink, a venture to merge the human brain with AI through cortical implants.

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Primes are also much like the atoms of the numerical universe, from which all other natural numbers are built

Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic. This states that every number can be written in exactly one way (ignoring rearrangements) as a product of one or more primes.