Industries, particularly high tech, may be waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court decision, expected this coming spring, in the Bilski case to decide some fundamental questions of when you can patent ...

Verhoeff developed an even more comprehensive algorithm that, in addition to detecting all of the same typos as Luhn’s algorithm, also catches 09/90 transpositions, as well as more exotic slipups.

Overview GitHub repos for math provide structured learning from basics to advanced topics.Interactive tools turn complex math ...

A teenage programmer tests a set of instructions she has written to get her computer to mop the floor. Suitable for teaching ...

A federal judge has thrown out a patent claim against Rackspace, ruling that mathematical algorithms can’t be patented. The ruling in the Eastern Disrict stemmed from a 2012 complaint filed by Uniloc ...

Long-term weather forecasting is a difficult task, partly because weather systems are inherently chaotic. Though mathematical ...

Fabienne Serriere, founder of Seattle-based KnitYak, combined her hardware-hacking and hand-knitting hobbies to develop something truly unique: custom knit scarves that show mathematical algorithms.