The takeaway: Minecraft was never designed to behave like a calculator. Its world is built entirely from cubes, with no smooth curves and no native concept of continuous geometry. That makes it an ...

A battle between “slimes” and “zoglins” could be the best way to calculate pi—at least for fans of this megahit game ...

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The duels will continue for at least two more seasons. The Floor has been renewed for Seasons 6 and 7 at Fox. Season 5 of the game show is currently airing on Wednesday nights, but that didn’t stop ...

Mathematicians spend most of their time thinking about what’s knowable. But the unknowable can be just as compelling. Perhaps the most famous example comes from a theorem by the logician Kurt Gödel.

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Everybody knows about President Donald Trump’s ballroom. We saw the bulldozers tear down the East Wing of the White House, the many renderings of what the new structure is going to look like. Each ...

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At the beginning of a recent math class, students spent six minutes discussing a topic they knew well: themselves. What’s their favorite food? Answers came in English and Spanish—“todo” (everything), ...