Mega Millions players hoping for a multimillion-dollar win may be scratching their heads after seeing the winning numbers. Tuesday, Dec. 17, Mega Millions numbers were 56-66-67-68-69 and the Mega Ball ...

With 69 white balls in the hopper every Powerball game, it seems odd when, say, the No. 28 ball rolls out one night and then, again, in the next drawing. That happened in the back-to-back drawings on ...

Creating a list of consecutive numbers is one of the easiest ways to create unique IDs for product lists, transaction IDs or event numbers. Of course, manually typing the next consecutive integer is ...

One infamous Mega Millions lottery drawing featured 66-67-68-69 among the winning numbers. Do people win lottery drawings on Friday the 13th or on angel days? It has happened. What are angel day ...

If you feel a little odd today, your calendar might explain why. Today’s date, 9/11/13, is a mathematical phenomenon so rare that it only occurs five times every 100 years. This is the last time for ...

There are many different types of numbers, some of which you may remember from school: natural, rational, irrational, imaginary, calculable and incalculable numbers. Today, however, we are going to ...

Prime numbers, divisible only by 1 and themselves, hate to repeat themselves. They prefer not to mimic the final digit of the preceding prime, mathematicians have discovered. “It is really, really ...

A long-standing puzzle seems to constrain how addition and multiplication relate to each other. A graduate student has gone further than anyone else in establishing the connection. In 1983 the ...