Years ago, no math education was complete without understanding how to compute a square root. Today, you are probably just ...

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Margaret Dutch’s daughter ran into an unusual math problem while taking the Washington Assessment of Student Learning at Capital High School last week. Her daughter, a sophomore, was given a ...

A computer made from strands of DNA in a test tube can calculate the square root of numbers up to 900. Chunlei Guo at the University of Rochester in New York state and colleagues developed a computer ...

Biological systems have caught the attention of computer scientists, who have been turning everything from RNA molecules to entire bacterial colonies into logic gates. So far, however, these systems ...

Microsoft Excel isn't just for making spreadsheets; it can also perform math calculations. Scientific and mathematical formulas frequently use exponents and square roots, and you can create a function ...

Using a computer-like system made from engineered DNA, scientists have computed the square root of 900. Biologists have proposed using genetic material for performing computations since as early as ...

A biocomputer has demonstrated the advanced computational capabilities DNA-based architecture could bring to future PCs by calculating the square root of 900. As reported by New Scientist, academic ...