You're sitting in math class trying to survive your latest pop quiz. Sweat trickles down your forehead as you read the prompt: "Find the distance between these points." The distance formula you're ...

Google Maps is a popular navigation app worldwide. But even so, there are a few valuable features missing from it. For instance, Google doesn’t offer the ability to find a halfway point between two ...

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Mathematicians have struggled to prove Falconer’s conjecture, a simple but far-reaching hypothesis about the distances between points. They’re finally getting close. Scatter three points in a plane, ...

An understanding of how to use Pythagoras’ theorem to find missing sides in a right-angled triangle is essential for applying the theorem in different contexts. (3,1) is the coordinate that is 3 along ...

Measuring distances “as the crow flies” on Google Maps just got easier with a hidden feature in the mobile app. While most users rely on Google Maps for navigation routes, this direct line measurement ...