Whenever you look at a clock, do you always see the same time? It might be 11:11 or 3:33. Maybe repeating numbers have made their way into other aspects of your life, such as a receipt that totaled ...

From WhatsApp status to Instagram stories, we often come across the screengrab of followers and shared contacts at 11:11 am ...

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.

Unless you're playing the lottery or suffer from hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia (fear of the number 666), you're unlikely to give much thought to the meaning behind numbers. But some believe numbers ...

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1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221. These are the first five elements of a number sequence. Can you figure out what comes next? If you're trying a bunch of arithmetic operations to make the numbers work, you're ...

On Friday, March 20, as the U.S. stock market closed out its worst week since 2008 amid coronavirus-related turmoil (before recovering somewhat early the following week), investors were left with a ...

What is your favorite number? For many people, it may be an irrational number such as pi (π), Euler's number (e) or the square root of 2. Even among the natural numbers (positive integers), there are ...

The upcoming year will be filled with blessings, at least that is what the numerical sequence of this New Year’s Eve date suggests. The once-in-a-century date, which won’t be seen again on our ...