The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew Krapivin, an undergraduate at Rutgers University, encountered a paper that would change his life.

It isn't often that a decades-old assumption underpinning modern technology is overturned, but a recent paper based on the work of an undergraduate and his two co-authors has done just that. That ...

A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew ...

What do hares and hounds have in common? They both figure into a 19th-century schoolboy game that evolved into the sport of cross country—and also launched a popular drinking and running club as we ...

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Seventy years after the invention of a data structure called a hash table, theoreticians have found the most efficient possible configuration for it. About 70 years ago, an engineer at IBM named Hans ...

Abstract: The accomplishment of blockchain has increased the focus on the various applications for simplifying the confidentiality and transaction sanctuary using the decentralized architecture via ...

A memory-efficiency hash table in JavaScript. Uses linked lists & chaining for collision mitigation. In the future, the hash table will have multiple versions for different languages.

Games come in all shapes and sizes, and there is a ton of variety in the board game space, in particular. From really involved games like Gloomhaven to easier, quicker games like Checkers or Chess and ...