Imagine a horizontal line. The very left is marked one thousand and the very right is marked one billion. On this line, where would you add a marker to represent one million? If you said somewhere in the middle, you answered the same as the roughly 50 ...

Everyone wants to win the lottery. Keep an eye out for these common lottery numbers if you want to up your chances of hitting it big. The chances of winning the lottery are about one in 300 million, but the unlikely odds don’t mean you can’t do more to ...

The discoveries of certain constant numbers have pushed the world forward as much as the the light bulb or the assembly line. These constants have led to bridges being built, finances being accounted for, and th completion of many other significant and ...

When you move beyond trillions, there are some extremely mind-bending numbers, says Richard Fisher. Some of them are too large to fit in the mind – or even within the known Universe. What's the biggest number you can think of? When I was a child, it's ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, Certified Financial Education Instructor, and ...

If you've got the time, we've got the riddle. And it's time for a riddle about time: How many numbers are on a clock? It begins with the simplest of questions that, nevertheless, has no simple answer. In fact, the only way to solve it is to think about it ...

Spreadsheets are ideal for tracking finances, orders, inventory, and so much more. If you’re a Mac user, you can take advantage of the spreadsheet app that comes free with macOS. Here’s how to use Apple Numbers. With Numbers, you can jump right into ...

Trump doesn’t use numbers the way most of us do, as “things that can be added, subtracted, multiplied, and divided,” as Columbia University statistician Andrew Gelman put it. Rather, he uses them as rhetorical objects.

Imaginary numbers might seem like unicorns and goblins — interesting but irrelevant to reality. But for describing matter at its roots, imaginary numbers turn out to be essential. They seem to be woven into the fabric of quantum mechanics, the math ...

The winning numbers in Monday's drawing of the "Tennessee Daily Jackpot" game were: 2, 5, 29, 37, 38 (two, five, twenty-nine, thirty-seven, thirty-eight)