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 ...

As soon as an actor in a movie or TV show starts rattling off a phone number, every viewer knows what the first three digits will be: 5-5-5. How did “555” become the convention for fake phone numbers, and are there any real 555 numbers? Let’s dial up ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study from a gambling site crunched the numbers on Powerball to determine the numbers that come up most frequently and those that might be overdue in a drawing. According to CSGO Luck's data, since 2015, the number 61 has been drawn 90 times in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

No one won the Powerball jackpot for the drawing on Saturday, January 3, 2026. The winning numbers for Saturday's drawing were 18, 21, 40, 53, 60, with a Powerball of 23. A ticket sold in Texas matched five numbers with the Power Play to win $2 million.

What’re the odds? Luck? Coincidence? Florida, California, Mega Millions lottery drawings had 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 consecutive numbers.