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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...

Data is stored differently depending on its type. Numbers are stored as integers or real numbers, text as string or characters. Algorithms are created to allow users to tell a computer how to solve a ...