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An curved arrow pointing right. A simple-looking math problem involving fruit has lots of people on Facebook very confused. After someone posted the question, over 2 million people have commented ...

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A math problem delineating the largest-size sofa that can fit around a corner has finally been solved, though it may not help you move.

A team of math and AI researchers at Microsoft Asia has designed and developed a small language model (SLM) that can be used to solve math problems. The group has posted a paper on the arXiv preprint ...

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It’s not every day that a math problem goes viral, but here we are, folks! So, someone on X asked people how they add 56 + 29 in their heads: How do you calculate 56+29 in your head without a ...