The Arabic number system links number length with magnitude: longer numbers represent larger values. In numerical comparisons, interference arises when physical and numerical dimensions are misaligned ...

Does your house address start with a 1? According to a strange mathematical law, about 1/3 of house numbers have 1 as their first digit. The same holds true for many other areas that have almost ...

Brazilian mathematician Alex Bellos reckons he has uncovered the world’s favourite number. Good news for those of us who have been agonising over which number the global population considers to be ...