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The game of Nim can be won every time using binary numbers.
This mathematical game can be solved completely using binary arithmetic. It's one of the first games to be mathematically solved and demonstrates how number theory can be applied to strategy.
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The sum of numbers 1 to 100 took young Carl Friedrich Gauss only seconds to calculate.
When Gauss was in elementary school, his teacher asked the class to add all numbers from 1 to...
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Every possible combination of DNA can be written as a number with 4 billion digits.
The human genome contains approximately 3 billion base pairs, each represented by one of four letters (A, T,...
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Every positive integer is the sum of four square numbers.
Lagrange's Four-Square Theorem states that every natural number can be represented as the sum of at most four...