The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

We look forward to seeing you at the 2025 MAA Missouri Section Meeting, held at Saint Louis University in St. Louis from Friday, April 4, to Saturday, April 5, with the MCMC preceding it on Thursday, ...

In a previous Java 101 tutorial, you learned how to better organize your code by declaring reference types (also known as classes and interfaces) as members of other reference types and blocks. I also ...

Three, as Schoolhouse Rock! told children of the 1970s, is a magic number. Three little pigs; three beds, bowls and bears for Goldilocks; three Star Wars trilogies. You need at least three legs for a ...

It seems like AI large language models (LLMs) are everywhere these days due to the rise of ChatGPT. Now, a software developer named Ishan Anand has managed to cram a precursor to ChatGPT called ...

Warning! This piece contains spoilers for The Marvels mid-credits scene. It’s been an uneven year for Marvel movies and shows, with the unimpressive arrival of Ant-Man: Quantumania and the lackluster ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. If you don't already know how computers work, it may seem like an unapproachable subject. It's the kind of high-level science and math that ...

The problem with social media in-jokes is they don’t stay funny for long. Someone takes them too seriously, then they become overblown commentaries on society as a whole, and then a media outlet goes ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dani Di Placido covers film, television, and internet culture. You might have seen the term “Boy Math” thrown around the internet ...

The development landscape is ripe with new languages and improvements on existing ones. Mozilla’s Rust, Apple’s Swift, Kotlin from JetBrains, and the experimental Python variant Mojo (and many others) ...