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School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Value-Added Catalytic Conversion and Reaction Engineering, Hefei ...

When it comes to teaching math, a debate has persisted for decades: How, and to what degree, should algorithms be a focus of learning math? The step-by-step procedures are among the most debated ...

MicroAlgo Inc. announced its research on the Quantum Information Recursive Optimization (QIRO) algorithm, which aims to address complex combinatorial optimization problems using quantum computing.

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1 School of Mathematics and Statistics, Sichuan University of Science and Engineering, Zigong, China. 2 Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computing, Chinese Academy of ...