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It’s a sunny spring morning and the Grade 9 math students at Milton District High School, in the Halton District School Board, just west of Toronto, are seated in straight rows facing the blackboard.

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Vinted has seen an explosive growth in recent years, boosted by consumers increasingly looking for value amid rising costs of living globally. The consumer-to-consumer platform allows customers to ...

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In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

The planar Hall effect is a tabletop diagnostic tool for special quantum properties useful in basic research and technological applications. Or so it was thought, because careful calculation by Kobe ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

The answers to today’s problems. Earlier today I set these four chess puzzles. Here they are again with solutions. 1. Oddities 1. A chess tournament is taking place with several participants. Not ...