When you move beyond trillions, there are some extremely mind-bending numbers, says Richard Fisher. Some of them are too large to fit in the mind – or even within the known Universe. What's the biggest number you can think of? When I was a child, it's ...

It's time for the annual GamesIndustry.biz Year in Numbers infographic, capturing the current state of the industry and the headline stats for 2025 in a single, very long graphic. In the data below, you will find: The best-selling games in the UK (from Nielsen GfK), US (from Circana) and Japan (from Famitsu)

Trump doesn’t use numbers the way most of us do, as “things that can be added, subtracted, multiplied, and divided,” as Columbia University statistician Andrew Gelman put it. Rather, he uses them as rhetorical objects.

It's an important concept when we talk about angel numbers: sequences of repeating numbers that contain repetition (e.g. 111) or patterns (e.g. 1717). Symbolically, these numbers are claimed to offer direction and advice,

Archaeologists working in northern Mesopotamia say they have uncovered visual patterns that look a lot like structured counting, even though no written numerals existed at the time. The claim is bold: that people were already doing something recognizably mathematical thousands of years before anyone carved a symbol for “one” or “ten” into clay.

Discover how the Luhn Algorithm verifies credit card accuracy, supports secure transactions, and helps prevent errors in inputting Social Security numbers.

After winning his first World Championship in 2025, Lando Norris chose to use ‘1’ on his McLaren for the 2026 season. If a driver’s desired number is unavailable at the time they enter the grid, they have to pick their second choice, or third if their second is unavailable, and so on.