The Powerball jackpot for tonight’s drawing is at $1.7 billion, putting one of the biggest lottery prizes in U.S. history within reach – just in time for Christmas. The jackpot soared after Monday’s drawing produced no winners, allowing the payout ...

Have you ever noticed certain numbers appearing repeatedly in your life? Perhaps you glance at the clock, and it always seems to say 11:11, or you keep seeing the number 222 on license plates, receipts,

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 ...

With only three days before Christmas, one lucky person could get the best gift of all as the Powerball jackpot has now reached $1.59 billion, the fourth largest in the history of the game. If a ticket matches all five numbers plus the Powerball on Monday ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Big lottery wins around the U.S. include a lucky lottery ticketholder in California who won a $1.27 billion Mega Millions jackpot in December 2024. See more big winners here. And if you do end up cashing a jackpot, here’s what experts say to do first.