Ready for a fresh set of puzzles? Click here for the January/February 2026 Puzzle Corner with a Mystery Hunt theme, brought to you by guest editor and longtime MIT Mystery Hunter Dan Katz ’03.

As we say goodbye to 2025, let’s delight in its numerical charms one final time. The year was unique this century as being a square number. 44 2 = 1936 45 2 = 2025 46 2 = 2116 And since 45 = 20 + 25, ...

Earlier today I set you the following set of numerical challenges to celebrate the arrival of 2026. Auld lang signs Here is an expression equal to 26 that uses six 1s: (1+1)×(1+1+11) Find expressions ...

Abstract: With the development of Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G, edge computing, as a new computing paradigm, has been widely popularized in academia and industry. Due to the distributed ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Abstract: Modular exponentiation is a vital function in public key cryptography. Dozens of protocols, including encryption schemes, signature schemes, pseudorandom functions, and more, perform this ...

Amateur mathematicians are closing in on an unimaginably huge number – one so large that it brushes up on the edge of what is even knowable within the framework of modern mathematics. It all stems ...

Tonemapper is a an application to compare and apply various tone mapping operators... Clone the repository recursively all dependencies and use CMake to generate project files for your favourite IDE ...

Understanding the caret (^) symbol in programming is essential for working with exponentiation and bitwise operations, providing clarity in mathematical expressions and logical computations. The caret ...

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