Stochastic computing (SC) is an unconventional computing paradigm that represents values using probabilities. This representation enables simple logic gates to perform complex arithmetic operations.

Crockett Johnson's painting follows a diagram in Evans G. Valens's The Number of Things that stops with the square root of 16. The construction of this oil or acrylic painting, #45 in the series, ...

Today is Cinco de Mayo. And this year, the fifth of May is filled with mathematical joy. It is — Square Root Day! It all started in 1981. "I was writing a check in late August," says Ron Gordon ...

The date so written - 4/4/16 - represents just one of nine so-called Square Root Days every century. The last was celebrated on March 3 2009 and the next one will be marked on May 5 2025.