The word “algorithm” can sometimes seem like a word designed to scare people away from math classes ... uses those representations to perform multiplication, division, or to take the square ...

Two companies have announced photonic devices that could solve specific real-world problems faster and with less energy than conventional computers.

Under Common Core’s math standards, the tried-and-true standard algorithms (step-by-step operational methods) for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division were de-emphasized while ...