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Underlying our vast global telecommunications networks are codes: formal schemes for representing information in machine-readable and transmissible formats. Kona Macphee examines the prefix property, one of the important features of a good code.

Tags: code : prefix property : binary code : tree : path : node

Mathematics shows that open source software beats closed source software in the race to fix bugs.

Tags: node : mathematical modelling : network : software development : open-source : closed-source : scale free network