These days, large language models can handle increasingly complex tasks, writing complex code and engaging in sophisticated ...

In her “11 x” series, Posavec invented a visual code for translating numerals into graphic shapes, which turned cascading sets of long multiplication into intricately beautiful patterns. “I just ...

A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...

Artificial intelligence systems can write software and reason through complex problems. Yet even basic arithmetic can expose ...

Numberphile revived an ancient multiplication trick—halves and doubles—also called Egyptian or Russian math, where you repeatedly halve one number and double the other. After crossing out rows with ...

THIS is an ingenious work, and would have suited the “fantastical” Armado (“I am ill at reckoning; it fitteth the spirit of a tapster”). By the aid of 1759 figures only the user of it is able to ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The title of this bound set of tables ...