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What it takes to become a cryptic crossword expert – and it’s more than just practice
Study shows 'super-solvers' tend to be academics with a leaning towards maths, science and code-cracking.
Kathryn Friedlander and Philip A. Fine, The Conversation
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How many ways can you arrange 128 tennis balls? Researchers solve an apparently impossible problem
The solution provides a basis for understanding issues ranging from predicting the formation of deserts, to making artificial intelligence more efficient.
University of Cambridge
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How to solve a Rubik's cube in five seconds
Don't worry – there are only 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 configurations.
Geoff Smith, The Conversation
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Football: Sunil Chhetri’s legacy goes beyond the playing field
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