For such enormous numbers, even Karatsuba's algorithm is too slow. A real breakthrough came in 1971 with the work of the German mathematicians Arnold Schönhage and Volker Strassen.

In other words, if their telephone number were 123-4567, their fax number would be 123-4568. By this way of thinking, 667 is the fax number of the beast, and so of cultural significance (the ...

Generating a string of random numbers is easy. The hard part is proving that they’re random. As Dilbert creator Scott Adams once pointed out, “that’s the problem with randomness: you can ...

In the big-data business future of numbers, algorithms, and evidence-based management, no business person will be able to succeed for long without having a much better grasp of statistical reasoning.