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Dollar Tree is looking at "strategic alternatives" for Family Dollar, which could include selling the chain, it said Wednesday. Analysts have described Family Dollar as Dollar Tree's problem child and ...

A holy grail of theoretical computer science, with numerous fundamental implications to more applied areas of computing such as operations research and artificial intelligence, is the question of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. Trees, you’ve got to love them. We seem to talk about trees ...

Dollar Tree had a miserable quarter, and company management is chalking it up to a mix of factors: changing consumer demands on top of higher prices for fuel and electricity … and theft. The company’s ...

Imagine you visit a maze with some friends. You emerge from the exit shortly after going in, and wait around for hours before your friends emerge. Naturally, they ask about the path you took — surely ...

Have you been asked at work or school to create a problem statement and include a proposed solution, but you don’t know where to start? Continue reading for everything you need to know about problem ...

For thousands of years, philosophers have pondered cardinality: knowing “how many.” Using a series of crude estimates, the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes worked out the approximate number of ...

Fast-growing, drought-tolerant trees are slowly spreading across grasslands on every continent except Antarctica. Given how desperate we are to reduce carbon in the atmosphere, millions of new ...