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A brand new optical illusion is making waves online, challenging viewers to spot a cleverly hidden number in a sea of lookalikes. Solving the challenge is easier said than done. Only the most focused ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Now that the Super Bowl is set and anticipation builds, you may see friends or coworkers passing along Super Bowl squares. What may seem like a complex grid of numbers is ...

In the thread about The Matrix is Real (*citation*) I used a construct 'how many screen combinations are possible for a small mobile phone colour screen, if the resolution is 320 * 240 and each pixel ...

The trick here is that your eyes get used to the pattern right away. Once the brain sees row after row of the same figure, it stops searching for anything unusual. That is why the odd number blends in ...

A systems administrator — not a mathematician — used a grid of computers supplied by volunteers at the University of California, Los Angeles, to find the world’s largest known prime number. The ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Now that the Super Bowl is set and anticipation builds, you may see friends or coworkers passing along Super Bowl squares. What may seem like a complex grid of numbers is ...