Valoren numbers are Swiss financial identifiers, similar to CUSIPs in the U.S. and Canada, used to uniquely mark financial instruments without embedded data.

This nine-digit number identifies your bank or credit union in a financial transaction. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners who compensate us when you ...

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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 ...

What is the most bizarre real number that you can imagine? Probably many people think of an irrational number such as pi (π) or Euler’s number. And indeed, such values can be considered “wild.” After ...