There are many types of loose materials that are sold in cubic yards, or “yards,” for short. Topsoil, mulch, and gravel are just a few of the commonly used products that are sold by this volume metric ...
Peter Shor didn’t set out to break the internet. But an algorithm he developed in the mid-1990s threatened to do just that. In a landmark paper, Shor showed how a hypothetical computer that exploited ...