T-libs-api api-change-proposalA proposal to add or alter unstable APIs in the standard librariesA proposal to add or alter unstable APIs in the standard libraries This issue contains an API change ...

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A sharp rise in students entering the University of California system without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators. A new internal report from the University of California ...

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A mathematician has solved a 200-year-old maths problem after figuring out a way to crack higher-degree polynomial equations without using radicals or irrational numbers. The method developed by ...