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Can you solve the elementary school problem that divided the internet in less than 30 seconds? Test your might in this seemingly easy challenge that many failed.

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Abstract: Many distance measures have been proposed in in the literature for vague sets, some of those measures cannot satisfy the axioms of distance or provide counterintuitive cases. For certain ...

Chalkbeat Ideas is a new section featuring reported columns on the big ideas and debates shaping American schools. Sign up for the Ideas newsletter to follow our work. An obscure university report has ...

Undergraduate students across North America sat down on Saturday to write a grueling six-hour math exam, many of them unlikely to solve a single problem. The notoriously brutal William Lowell Putnam ...

Abstract: Recently, multimodal multiobjective optimization problems (MMOPs) have received increasing attention. Their goal is to find a Pareto front and as many equivalent Pareto optimal solutions as ...