HUNTSVILLE, AL - A C-17 cargo plane makes a daily flight over New Century Technology High School during Sarah Folse's second-block class. Sarah watches it every day. She wants to fly planes, but she ...

Microsoft Excel 2007 has math problems. Over the weekend some folks in the Microsoft Excel Google Group reported that cell operations like =77.1*850 return erroneous results (in this case Excel ...

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A mental math system developed in the 1800's is helping some local students ace standardized tests and win math competitions. But the method isn't taught in most Houston schools.

If you were in IT in 1994, you probably remember Intel's huge Pentium recall because of floating point math errors. The errors seemed tiny on the surface (Byte ...

Then to optimize over that linear model they’ll show you gradient descent, and again you’ll note, “Well, that’s just calculus!” Support vector machines? Merely convex optimization. Naive Bayes? Just ...