How does Luhn’s algorithm know when your fingers fumble? Every digit in a credit card number contributes a one-digit number to the final sum in the algorithm.

An expectant mom got a $750 bill for a blood test to check for genetic abnormalities in her baby. Then she tried to figure out why it was so high.

Objective Energy-saving sedentary behaviour may be an evolutionarily selected trait that is no longer advantageous. We investigated the associations between genetic liability to sedentary behaviour ...

Effective AML compliance requires accurately screening for sanctions, politically exposed persons (PEPs), and adverse media. Two algorithms: Jaro-Winkler and Levenshtein, often come up in ...

Grover's algorithm, a quantum algorithm for search, can be used to prepare entangled states of many qubits efficiently.