Scientific American on Instagram: "This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics went to three people who helped discover that a quantum physics principle works on real world scales. Their findings helped form the basis of digital technology, including supercomputers and smartphones. Read more about the award-winning research at the link in our bio. 🎤🎞️✏️ Carin Leong 📝Lee Billings 📸 Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Getty Images, UC Berkeley, Yale Engineering, Rocco Ceselin for Nat

Naman Pal on Instagram: "The Josephus Problem is one of the most fascinating puzzles in math & computer science. 🌀 Imagine this: 100 people stand in a circle. Starting from person 1, each person eliminates the one next to them. This continues round and round… until only one survivor is left. 😨 Now here’s the mind-blowing part → Instead of simulating the whole process, math gives us a direct formula to find the last survivor. For k = 2 (kill next person): 1. Write the number of people in binary