Google knows a thing or two about complex calculations performed across very big data sets. Which is why chemists are borrowing ideas from the search company to help them predict how substances react with each other.
What do you get when you transpose the first 31 digits of the number pi into musical notes? Math that’s never sounded so good. And if ever an unofficial holiday needed an anthem to get some much-deserved recognition, it’s 3/14. [Reddit via Geekosystem]
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Those young whipper snappers back in 1979 couldn’t hold a candle to this archaic computational device, the abacus. Gizmodo 600 BC, anyone?