Everyone knows that arithmetic is true: 2 + 2 = 4. But surprisingly, we don’t know why it’s true. By stepping outside the box of our usual way of thinking about numbers, my colleagues and I have ...

PORTSMOUTH, N.H., June 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Heinemann today announced the release of an updated edition of its student-powered math curriculum Math Expressions. The new edition will offer the same ...

The macro facility is a string handling facility. However, in specific situations, the macro processor can evaluate operands that represent numbers as numeric values. When the macro processor ...

The Linux command line offers some very useful tools to enable you to perform mathematical calculations. This post runs through a series of commands you can use and demonstrates some techniques for ...

The confusion (likely intentional) boiled down to a discrepancy between the math rules used in grade school and in high school. By Steven Strogatz Recently I wrote about a math equation that had ...