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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. So far this year, Quanta has chronicled three major advances in Ramsey theory, the study of how to avoid creating mathematical patterns.

Imagine a horizontal line. The very left is marked one thousand and the very right is marked one billion. On this line, where would you add a marker to represent one million? If you said somewhere in ...

Discover how the Law of Large Numbers helps insurance companies manage risk and determine premiums, and why it sometimes ...

The article details the historical development of numbers, from basic counting tools used by early humans to the sophisticated number systems used in modern science and economics, highlighting the ...

The law of large numbers describes how the results of an experiment will get closer to the expected value if a person repeats it a significant number of times and calculates an average. It bears some ...