Numberphile revived an ancient multiplication trick—halves and doubles—also called Egyptian or Russian math, where you repeatedly halve one number and double the other. After crossing out rows with ...

Most people break out in a cold sweat when they see fractions. There's something about those little lines and numbers stacked on top of each other that makes even confident adults feel like they're ...

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Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe – so the rhyme goes. But even children know that counting-out rhymes like this are no help at making a truly random choice. Perhaps you remember when ...

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March 17: “Thank you for my sons, thank you for my life.” —An Ethiopian immigrant working in a hotel in Montreal in 2024, ...

In-N-Out Burger removed the number "67" from its ticket system after the viral "6-7" meme reportedly caused mobs of teenagers to flood restaurants. People magazine confirmed with a Los Angeles ...

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Last month, a Tennis Canada employee stepped to the microphone at a sports industry gathering in downtown Toronto and asked a collection of executives from Sportsnet, TSN, CBC and the streamer DAZN ...

With a net worth pegged at $676 billion as of Dec. 16, 2025, per Forbes, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is far-and-away the richest man on Earth — the next closest competitor being Larry page, co-founder and ...