Math Whiz Breaks Calculation Record
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A 38-year-old with degrees in psychology, education and computer science needed only 11.8 seconds to calculate the 13th root of a 100-digit number in his head, setting a new record, organizers said.
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Matthew Emmons is a trained accountant  but he got his numbers terribly wrong on Sunday.
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1U rocket ship IDF Floating point whiz ClearSpeed continues to round out its software play ahead of several major product upgrades.â¦
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Â· Clinton's rival raises record breaking $32m in a monthÂ· Schwarzenegger endorses Republican frontrunner
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Audit pending Exclusive For more than six months, beginning in January of this year, Wikipedia's million-dollar check book was balanced by a convicted felon.â¦
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Asymptote (http://asymptote.sourceforge.net) is a powerful descriptive vector graphics language for technical drawing, inspired by MetaPost but with an improved C++-like syntax. Asymptote provides for figures the same high-quality level of typesetting that LaTeX does for scientific text.   Problems with loading LaTeX packages and slide presentations were fixed. Non-static variables in every loop iteration are now allocated anew. Formatting under locales with nonperiod decimal separators was fixed, along with logarithmic tick labels near the machine epsilon.  Concatenation of nullpaths was fixed. New path markers were added and the perpendicular symbol in the geometry module was improved. The skeleton routines in the solids module were split to provide finer control.  Routines to facilitate drawing 3d contours were added. Reading portable XDR binary data into arrays works again; functions for reading and writing also in native binary formats were added. The TeX preamble is no longer output in inline mode. The TeX pipe is now aware of a previously generated aux file. Memory leaks were fixed. An inline limit is now imposed on old compilers to speed up compilation. Setlocale warnings are disabled unless debugging is on. A colorspace command for extracting the colorspace of a pen was added. An Asymptote introductory slide presentation was added and a user-written Asymptote tutorial is now cited in the manual.
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The numbers jump out at you each day, to the point where you think they must be misprints.
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Mathematicians could be on the verge of solving two separate million dollar problems. If they are right - still a big if - and somebody really has cracked the so-called Riemann hypothesis, financial disaster might follow.
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A supercomputer being built to analyze the US nuclear stockpile has again set an unofficial performance record -- the second in just over a month.
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Business & money: Â· Wii and Simpsons help to create trading record Â· Nearly 1m items ordered on e-tailer's busiest day
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After days of flirting with its all-time peak, the Dow Jones industrial average finally set a new record this afternoon. According to preliminary figures the Dow closed at 17,727.26.
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Rigel triples overnight, but was it justified?
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roundup Plus: Autodesk updates hobbyist tool...LogicLibrary buys bug catcher...Think local, act Google.
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The Piethon benchmark contest is beginning to loom, and the language list discusses how scalars should be interpolated and subscripted.
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Why count in binary when you can use hundreds of different digits at once? That&#39;s the principle that has allowed British physicists to develop a video disk that stores far more data than has ever been possible before.
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This is a math problem that voters or hard drives can&#39;t solve. It sounds so simple, but in the 2004 college football season, three into two won&#39;t go.
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Excel 2007 has troubles with multiplication when the result is 65,535--a number familiar to those who've dealt with binary numbers.