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What Do the Numbers on Barcodes Mean?

These seemingly random digits can tell you a lot.

What Do the Numbers on Barcodes Mean?

Grad Student Solves the Conway Knot, a Math Problem That Has Stumped Experts for 50 Years

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Grad Student Solves the Conway Knot, a Math Problem That Has Stumped Experts for 50 Years

The Reason Apple Doesn’t Include a Calculator With the iPad

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The Reason Apple Doesn’t Include a Calculator With the iPad

15 Riveting Facts About Alan Turing

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15 Riveting Facts About Alan Turing

Keep Your Brain Engaged With the National Museum of Mathematics’s Weekly “Mind-Benders for the Quarantined” Puzzles

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5 People Who Were Amazingly Productive In Quarantine

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9 Fascinating Facts About Katherine Johnson

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36 Unusual Units of Measurement

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Why Is There a Leap Day?

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100 Things We Learned in 2019

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A Simple Way to Figure Out How Many Lights Are Needed for Your Christmas Tree

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Science Finds a Better Way to Calculate 'Dog Years'

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Nobel Prize Awarded to John Nash, Subject of A Beautiful Mind, Is Available to Bid On

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Some Mathematicians Think the Equal Sign is On Its Way Out

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Honey Bees Can Understand the Concept of Zero

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How to Parallel Park Perfectly in One Try, According to Math

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