(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Researchers have successfully used a quantum algorithm to solve a complex century-old mathematical problem long considered impossible for even the most powerful conventional supercomputers. The ...

Notifications You must be signed in to change notification settings Date: 8/26/2025 Total Time: Approximately 9.5 hours Project: Solve the Maximum SubArray problem--develop a Sum of Subarray's map to ...

Bug: A naive solution may try all subarrays using nested loops (O(n²) or worse), which is too slow for large inputs. Expected: Use Kadane’s Algorithm (O(n)), which efficiently updates the running sum ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose a problem to solve—akin to identifying a ...

The library sorting problem is used across computer science for organizing far more than just books. A new solution is less than a page-width away from the theoretical ideal. Computer scientists often ...

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