Infants and animals are able to understand approximate quantities of different types, in terms of relative proportions of the numbers of different sets of objects, provided the difference in numbers ...
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 ...
Many people use one finger to count a number when asked, 'Use both fingers to count numbers.' In this How to count, to be counted using both hands is up to 0 to 10, more than to count the number of, ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. A new proof has brought mathematicians one step closer to understanding the hidden order of those “atoms of arithmetic,” the prime ...
Counting non-empty cellsThe COUNTBLANK-COUNTA conflict (and how to fix it)Summary: Choosing the right counting functionIn ...
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 ...