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West Valley School eighth-grader Sawyer Schneider rounded off the state Montana Mathcounts competition with a ticket to nationals in May. Ranking third out of 65 at the state competition held at ...

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Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

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