I'm sure FPGA logic designers have often heard it said: “We just need to take this number mod 3.” Or maybe something like, “Just round to the nearest hundred.” This latter case really means: “Take the ...

I welcomed the New Year by playing mahjong with my family. The version we play starts with one person rolling three dice and then counting around the table of four players to whatever the total is.

Hidden inside a simple color-mixing analogy is one of the most elegant ideas in cryptography, a mathematical trap door that ...

One of my fellow contributors here recently wrote a post about leap years and why we have them. This reminded me of modular arithmetic and the formula for calculating the day of the week for any date ...

While many people have a feeling that AI technology is 'somehow incomprehensible,' even those who are familiar with it seem to share the same sentiment. Welch Labs, a company that produces educational ...