A brain teaser shared online this week has left people stumped. Can you remember the special rule taught in math class to figure out the correct answer?

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a managing director at Frontline Analysts and author of “The Unaccountability Machine” The ...

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I SHALL be grateful if you will allow me to communicate, through your columns, to mathematicians generally, but specially to those engaged in teaching arithmetic, two new rules, which effect such a ...

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This maths puzzle has genuinely baffled quite a few people. Attempting to work it out might transport you back to memories of being trapped in a maths class at school, being picked on by your teacher, ...

Abstract: In this paper, we study error exponents for an index-based concatenated coding based class of DNA storage codes in which the number of reads performed can ...

Adding numbers can be made considerably easier by learning the proper techniques. Among these arithmetic strategies, the "Make 10" method gives kids more self-assurance and speeds up calculations.

Ken Ono, a top mathematician and advisor at the University of Virginia, has helped uncover a striking new way to find prime numbers—those puzzling building blocks of arithmetic that have kept ...