Primecoin and Cunningham prime chains

Primecoin is a cryptocurrency whose mining task requires finding chains of prime numbers. It's a blockchain built on prime chains.

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🚀 In the riveting saga of 'Gaussian Splatting Wang Tiles,' the academic elite bravely tackle the earth-shattering challenge of making 3D terrains out of math gibberish. 🌍✨ Armed with more acronyms than your average NASA mission, they promise photorealistic worlds—if only anyone could decode the abstract. 🤖🔍
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GSWT

A tile-based Gaussian Splatting rendering system for infinitely expanding terrain

Isaac Newton's apple 🍏 was clearly not busy enough, so he decided to invent binomial power series before breakfast. Meanwhile, Quanta Magazine is busy discovering ALL the topics ever, one painfully obvious revelation at a time 🎉.
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How Isaac Newton Discovered the Binomial Power Series | Quanta Magazine

Rethinking questions and chasing patterns led Newton to find the connection between curves and infinite sums.

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Behold Modular Forms, the ‘Fifth Fundamental Operation’ of Math

Modular forms are one of the most beautiful and mysterious objects in mathematics. What are they?

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