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mathematics

Maths website stops you being ripped off by your flatmates

Technology

Maths website stops you being ripped off by your flatmates

Who pays what in a flat-share is a tricky problem. Results from website Spliddit show the maths of fair division gives the solutions people think are best

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polling

How YouGov’s experimental poll correctly called the UK election

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Physics

Game theory says you should charge your friends to borrow things

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numbers

Humans

How number words may have changed us from zeroes to heroes

Culture

A stuffed thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger

Life

Odds that Tasmanian tigers are still alive are 1 in 1.6 trillion

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Runners tying shoelaces

Physics

Physics of shoelaces shows why they come undone when you run

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WhatsApp

Technology

You can't legislate against mathematics

Leader

Maths explains how pedestrians avoid bumping into one another

Humans

Maths explains how pedestrians avoid bumping into one another

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A hand held up in an icy land

Technology

Cooling to absolute zero mathematically outlawed after a century

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pi

Physics

Celebrate pi day with 9 trillion more digits than ever before

A pi world record has been set with the calculation of 22 trillion digits after the decimal point - both remarkable and useless

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Physics

The maths problems that could win you a million dollars

Features

Physics

Magnets, boiling kettles and the secret code underlying reality

Features

Earth

Simple equation shows how human activity is trashing the planet

Comment

Space

When computers were human: The black women behind NASA’s success

Features

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