Forget what you know about the number 666. If series of sixes, like 666, are popping up everywhere, you have no reason to fear: This sequence is associated with love and connection, according to ...

A single winning ticket was sold for Powerball's Christmas Eve jackpot of $1.817 billion — the second-largest U.S. lottery prize ever. The winner, who has not been publicly identified, bought the ...

The winning numbers for the Powerball jackpot worth an estimated $1.6 billion were drawn on Monday, but there once again was no jackpot winner. The numbers drawn were: 3,18, 36, 41 and 54 with a red ...

The Powerball jackpot rose to $1.27 billion for the Wednesday, Dec. 17, drawing after no one on Monday, Dec. 15, took home the top prize. If a ticket matches all five numbers plus the Powerball in the ...

No one won the Powerball jackpot in Monday night's drawing. Two tickets sold in Arizona and California matched five numbers to win $1 million each. The winning numbers for Monday, Dec. 15, were 23, 35 ...

Editor's note: Last updated following the Dec. 10, 2025 drawing. Let's face it. You face some pretty steep odds to win the Powerball jackpot, like a 1 in 292.2 million chance. So is there any way to ...

Sure you can play your family's birthdays or anniversaries, but are any of Mega Millions numbers luckier than others? Editor's note: Updated on Nov. 12, 2025. At 290,472,336-to-1, the odds of winning ...

With a whopping $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot on Wednesday, you may be wondering which numbers are the luckiest. In order to win the current Powerball jackpot, a player must pick five numbers from a ...

You glance at your phone: 11:11. Your coffee costs $11.11. A license plate reads 111. If these repeating digits keep catching your eye, you might be wondering if there’s more to it than chance.

One of my favorite anecdotes about prime numbers concerns Alexander Grothendieck, who was among the most brilliant mathematicians of the 20th century. According to one account, he was once asked to ...

Prime numbers are only divisible by themselves and one. Robert Brook via Getty Images In the 17th century, French monk and mathematician Marin Mersenne developed a method to find prime numbers: values ...

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.