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A mathematical mastermind has explained how he has won the lottery 14 times. The now 91-year-old used probabilities and ...

A mathematician has disclosed how he managed to win the lottery an astonishing 14 times. The 91-year-old utilised ...

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He realized something profound: under certain conditions, the lottery wasn't gambling at all. It was math. Mandel developed what he called "combinatorial condensation," a complex algorithm that ...

Abstract: Spherical evolution (SE) is a recently proposed meta-heuristic algorithm. Its special search approach has been proved to be very effective in exploring the search space. SE is very powerful ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...