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Somewhere at the edge of mathematics lurks a number so large that it breaks the very foundations of our understanding - and ...

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When I was in middle school, I had a classmate who would look at trigonometric functions and yell, "I will never need these!" ...

Every year, people try to discredit Santa. The jokes are easy. The work is not. Even under a “one present each” assumption, ...

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