Human Number Crunchers. When ... Foldit—an online puzzle created by biologists and computer scientists at the University of Washington—proves that human intuition can outperform computer ...

Numbers figure pretty high up on the list of what a computer can do well. While humans often struggle to split a restaurant bill, a modern computer can make millions of calculations in a mere second.

A human knows that four cats, four apples and the symbol 4 all have one thing in common – the abstract concept of 'four'. Now robots are catching up. Search query. Search. News. Finance.

Human Numbers Through Time. Publish Date: 4/20/04 Topic: Physics + Math Physics & Math NOVA. Share. For most of humans' existence, our ancestors led precarious lives as scavengers, hunters, and ...