The first observer to catalog differences in star brightnesses was Greek astronomer Hipparchus. He created a catalog around 135 B.C.E. of roughly 850 stars divided into six ranges. He called the ...

U.S. employers are adding far fewer jobs than initially tallied, in the latest sign that the labor market may be weaker than expected, according to a preliminary report from the Labor Department on ...

I’m a zero at mental arithmetic. It’s true—I struggle with this skill—but I want to focus on the phrase itself. In our language, we often equate zero with something negative. But zero is the only real ...

Covid initially made Andrew Cuomo a national star. But his rivals and critics are now wielding the crisis as a cudgel against him. A super PAC opposed to Cuomo’s mayoral campaign today will unveil an ...

Concerned teachers have shared the NCEA question that left top students in tears after their exam. The maths question was sent to the Herald by a teacher concerned about its inappropriateness. The ...

This is a C/C++ library for posit8 and posit16 tapered/floating point arithmetic support in Arduino. Posit Arithmetic was invented by John Gustafson. It is an alternative format to IEEE 754 that ...

Calculating negative exponents is relatively straightforward once you understand their meaning and how they work within mathematical expressions. By following these simple steps outlined in this ...

Many complicated advances in research mathematics are spurred by a desire to understand some of the simplest questions about numbers. How are prime numbers distributed in the integers? Are there ...