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Math is not everyone’s favorite, understandably. Hours of math homework and difficult equations can make anyone sour on the subject. But when math problems are outside of a school setting, there’s no ...

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Here, count with me: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, T, 11, 12 … Oh, what’s that? You write ten with “zero”? Fair enough. Zero, we have been told, is the ...

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In the early 1930s, the renowned Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős set forth a puzzle. Erdős offered $500 to anyone who could crack it. Called the Erdős discrepancy problem, a puzzle that surmised ...