Mathematicians have illuminated what sets of points can look like if the distances between them are all whole numbers. The change of plans came on a road trip. On a beautiful day last April, the ...

We humans seem to be born with a number line in our head. But a May 30 study in Science suggests it may look less like an evenly segmented ruler and more like a logarithmic slide rule on which the ...

Consider five-digit binary numbers: strings of five bits that are either 1 or 0. The “Hamming distance” between two numbers is given by how many of their corresponding bits are different. So the ...