As the Powerball jackpot swells to $1.7 billion after no winner was declared on Wednesday night, some experts are placing ...

The repeated numbers and decision to discontinue the use of Multi-State Lottery random number-generated software indicates the nation’s lottery system has little oversight, said Gary Dickey, a Des ...

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

As phones grew more popular, the manual-switchboard system became automated and the number system went from regional to national, with a longer set of numbers and the introduction of area codes.

Existing color systems, such as RGB and CYMK, are all text-based and require a large range of values to represent different colors, making them difficult to compute and time-consuming to convert.

We demonstrate a link between preschoolers’ quantitative competencies and their school-entry knowledge of the relations among numbers (number-system knowledge). The quantitative competencies of 141 ...