One is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do, especially if you don’t even have a word for it. That’s the situation of the Pirahã people, denizens of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest who have no term for ...

Writing a check correctly can be intimidating, especially if you’re out of practice — or never learned. The less you use your checkbook, the more confusing it can be — especially when it comes to ...

IMAGINE a world without numbers. Time and space would lose their meaning: telling time and counting the passing days, months and years would become impossible. Our ability to use numbers is essential ...

Today is a big day for lovers of the number 12, and no one loves 12s more than the members of the Dozenal Society. The Dozenal Society advocates for ditching the base-10 system we use for counting in ...

When you compose a document and need either a subscript or a superscript – the little numbers you put beside words to indicate a footnote or by numbers for exponents – Microsoft Word gives you three ...

Puzzles may do more than entertain us. Source: Ben_Kerckx/Pixabay, used with permission. It may seem like a no-brainer, but the effects of brain training—using tools like word and number games to ...