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The number of cash machines in Norfolk has fallen by almost a third, according to a report looking into concerns about access to money. The study by Norfolk County Council said cash remained "vital" ...

A new study reveals that Srinivasa Ramanujan’s century-old formulas for calculating pi unexpectedly emerge within modern theories of critical phenomena, turbulence, and black holes. In school, many of ...

Machine learning is the ability of a machine to improve its performance based on previous results. Machine learning methods enable computers to learn without being explicitly programmed and have ...

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