<ul> <li>Seller: That will be fourteen dollars.</li> <li>Buyer: Here's a twenty.</li> <li>Seller: Sorry, I don't have any change.</li> <li>Buyer: OK, here's a ten and a five. Keep the change.</li> </ul&g…
<ul> <li>Seller: That will be fourteen dollars.</li> <li>Buyer: Here's a twenty.</li> <li>Seller: Sorry, I don't have any change.</li> <li>Buyer: OK, here's a ten and a five. Keep the change.</li> </ul&g…
<p>Luke has a bit of trouble telling the difference between star systems in the Rebel Alliance and those in the Empire. He has a list of the x,y,z coordinates of each system in the Empire and each in the Alliance, but at warp speed he simply has insuffic…
<p>Fermat's theorem states that for any prime number <i>p</i> and for any integer <i>a > 1</i>, <i>a<sup>p</sup> == a (mod p)</i>. That is, if we raise <i>a</i> to the <i>p</i>…