Is 170,141,183,460,469,231,731,687,303,715,884,105,727 prime? Before you ask the Internet for an answer, can you consider how you might answer that question without a ...

Jean-Charles Pelland's work has been made possible by financial support from the ‘QUANTA: Evolution of Cognitive Tools for Quantification’ project, which has received funding from the European ...

At least one of the thieves remains at large, French prosecutors say. At the time of the brazen heist of $102 million in jewels from the Louvre last month, the password to the world-famous museum's ...

Binary is the number system at the heart of modern computing that uses only 1’s and 0’s. Essentially, it’s just a way of representing numbers that a computer can understand. Computers operate using ...

In an age of constant communication, receiving phone calls or messages from unknown numbers has become increasingly common. Whether it's a missed call from an unfamiliar number, a potential scam or a ...

Has your phone been blowing up with spam calls lately? You might be alarmed to discover your phone number is readily available on Google, social media, and other websites you’re registered with. This ...

The odds of winning the Powerball are a dismal 1 in 292,201,338. Still, millions of people take a shot at a dream three times a week and play for a chance to match the numbers on the five white balls ...

Once upon a time, it took multiple devices, software and/or programs to accomplish what a lot of us can now do with just our smartphones. You no longer need photo editing software to remove the ...

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 ...

Tired of getting random calls from strangers, wondering whether or not it’s something to be concerned about? What about when a person calls saying they’ve got a missed phone call from your number? Or, ...