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Unbreakable: The race to protect our secrets from quantum hacks

28 February 2018

Quantum computers will smash our best encryption. To make everything from online chats to government intelligence safe, we need maths no machine could solve

Maths website stops you being ripped off by your flatmates

16 June 2017

Who pays what in a flat-share is a tricky problem. Results from website Spliddit show the maths of fair division gives the solutions people think are best

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