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CBSE Board Exams 2026: The examinations will be held from 10:30 AM to 01:30 PM. CBSE Board Exams 2026: Mathematics is often considered one of the most challenging subjects for students. Those who are ...

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When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

There weren’t calculators or computers in medieval Europe. But there were math duels. Mathematicians would gather in public squares and pose tricky math problems to each other. Then they raced to ...

Quantum computers can outperform even the best classical supercomputers thanks to quantum entanglement and superposition, but even they can’t solve some problems. A new preprint study shows how ...

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