Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.

Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I really like to use numerical calculations without all the fancy programming ...

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

Abstract: This paper presents a new algorithm for encoding binary strings of fixed-length into a word of constant Hamming weight and constant length. The primary difference compared to previous ...

Converting between units is often something you have to do on the fly, and it is made easier when you memorise some rough equivalents. For instance, an imperial pint is 568 millilitres, but I often ...

Decimal notation describes numbers using the digits 1 through 10. Binary notation describes them using just two digits, 1 and 0, where each bit in a string represents a power of 2. The right-most bit ...

CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A 32-year-old man recently played the lottery for a second time in 2024 and won big, claiming a $6 million prize in the 500X Money Maker instant game, according to the ...